But I did hear it.

And then, when I find her staying with her mother at your house, of course I believe it to be true." "Now she is staying at your brother's house,--which is much the same thing." "But I am here." "And my grandmother is at Bragton." "That puts me in mind, Mr.Morton.I am so sorry that we did not know it, so that we might have asked her." "She never goes out anywhere, Lady Penwether." "And there is nothing then in the report that I heard ?" Morton paused a moment before he answered, and during that moment collected his diplomatic resources.

He was not a weak man, who could be made to tell anything by the wiles of a pretty woman.

"I think," he said, "that when people have anything of that kind which they wish to be known, they declare it." "I beg your pardon.

I did not mean to unravel a secret." "There are secrets, Lady Penwether, which people do like to unravel, but which the owners of them sometimes won't abandon." Then there was nothing more said on the subject.