15/26 "And while she is coming, Mr.Carlyle," he added, "allow me to express my obligations to you. How I should have got along in this worrying business without you, I cannot divine. You have promised, mind, to pay me a visit, and I shall expect it speedily." "Promised conditionally--that I find myself in your neighborhood," smiled Mr.Carlyle. "Should--" Isabel entered, dressed also, and ready, for she was to depart immediately after the earl. Her crape veil was over her face, but she threw it back. |