She felt the meaning of it now.
"You do not intend to tell him--perhaps Soolsby has done so," she said keenly, and moved on to the staircase.
He was thunderstruck at her intuition.

"Why do you want to rob yourself ?" he asked after her vaguely.

She turned back.

"Think of your mother's letter that you destroyed," she rejoined solemnly and quietly.
"Was it right ?" He shut the door, and threw himself into a chair.

"I will put it straight with her to-morrow," he said helplessly.
He sat for a half-hour silent, planning his course.
At last there came a tap at the door, and the butler appeared.
"Some one from the Foreign Office, my lord," he said.