A groan escaped Lady Belward.
"And now--now, what will you do ?" asked the baronet.
"I do not know.

I am going back first to Andree." Sir William's face was ashy.
"Impossible!" "I promised, and I will go back." Lady Belward's voice quivered: "Stay, ah, stay, and redeem the past! You can, you can outlive it." Always the same: live it down! "It is no use," he answered; "I must return." Then in a few words he thanked them for all, and bade them good-bye.
He did not offer his hand, nor did they.

But at the door he heard Lady Belward say in a pleading voice: "Gaston!" He returned.

She held out her hand.
"You must not do as your father did," she said.

"Give the woman up, and come back to us.