What he heard from her surprised him, and upon surprise followed mortification.

He knew that she had in appearance adopted Mutimer's principles, but his talk with her in London at Mrs.Boscobel's had convinced him that her heart was in far other things than economic problems and schemes of revolution.

She had listened so eagerly to his conversation on art and kindred topics; it was so evident that she was enjoying a temporary release from a mode of life which chilled all her warmer instincts.

Yet she now made it her entreaty that he would continue Mutimer's work.

Beginning timidly, she grew to an earnestness which it was impossible to think feigned.