Mr.Westlake told me of him, at the time when the Manor passed to Mr.Mutimer.' Her husband was from home, so had not been at the Boscobels' last evening.
Adela could rest now that she had spoken.

She was searching for a means of leading the conversation into another channel, when Stella continued,-- 'You knew him formerly ?' 'Yes, when he still lived at Wanley.

I have not met him since he went away.' Stella mused.
'I suppose he came to live in London ?' 'I understood so.' At length Adela succeeded in speaking of something else.

Mental excitement had set her blood flowing more quickly, as though an obstruction were removed.

Before long the unreasoning lightness of heart began to take possession of her again.