'Say no more!' he exclaimed.

'You are too good to her; she is not worthy of it.' The interruption passed unheeded by Lady Montbarry.

The simple words in which Agnes had replied seemed to have absorbed the whole attention of this strangely-changeable woman.

As she listened, her face settled slowly into an expression of hard and tearless sorrow.

There was a marked change in her voice when she spoke next.