If he had been, by any chance, deluded into leaving the house, he would sooner or later discover the trick that had been played on him, and would certainly return.

Iris took a chair in the hall.
* * * * * * * It is due to the doctor to relate that he had indeed justified his wife's confidence in him.
The diamond pin, undergoing valuation in London, still represented a present terror in his mind.

The money, the money--he was the most attentive husband in England when he thought of the money! At the time when Lord Harry's carriage stopped at his house-door, he was in the dining-room, taking a bottle of brandy from the cellaret in the sideboard.

Looking instantly out of the window, he discovered who the visitor was, and decided on consulting his instructions in the pocket-diary.

The attempt was rendered useless, as soon as he had opened the book, by the unlucky activity of the servant in answering the door.