"I was very surprised to hear this morning that Forrest was still down at the Red Hall with Cecil.

By the by, Ronald has turned up again, of course ?" The Duke hesitated for so long that Andrew turned towards him, and noticed for the first time the anxious lines in his face.
"Since the day he left the Red Hall," the Duke said, "Ronald has neither been seen nor heard from.

I forgot that you had been outside civilization for nearly a month.

Although I have tried hard, I have not been able to keep the affair altogether out of the papers." Andrew was thunderstruck.
"Good God!" he exclaimed.

"Why, Berners, this is one of the strangest things I ever heard of.