Good-bye, sir." Lady Belward's face was in her hands.

"Good-bye-grandmother," he said at the door, and then he was gone.
At the outer door the old housekeeper stepped forward, her gloomy face most agitated.
"Oh, sir, oh, sir, you will come back again?
Oh, don't go like your father!" He suddenly threw an arm about her shoulder, and kissed her on the cheek.
"I'll come back--yes I'll come back here--if I can.

Good-bye, Hovey." In the library Sir William and Lady Belward sat silent for a time.
Presently Sir William rose, and walked up and down.

He paused at last, and said, in a strange, hesitating voice, his hands chafing each other: "I forgot myself, my dear.

I fear I was violent.