On the following morning there came a telegram from Felix.

He was to be expected at Beccles on that afternoon by a certain train; and Roger, at Lady Carbury's request, undertook to send a carriage to the station for him.

This was done, but Felix did not arrive.

There was still another train by which he might come so as to be just in time for dinner if dinner were postponed for half an hour.

Lady Carbury with a tender look, almost without speaking a word, appealed to her cousin on behalf of her son.