Don't tell him what I've done! We had a little misunderstanding, in past days, at Honeybuzzard--and, now we are friends again, I don't want to lose his lordship's interest." Iris promised to be silent.

But to know that the wild lord was in England again, and to remain in ignorance whether he had, or had not, returned with the stain of bloodshed on him, was more than she could endure.
"There is one question I must ask you," she said.

"I have reason to fear that Lord Harry left this country, with a purpose of revenge--" Mr.Vimpany wanted no further explanation.

"Yes, yes; I know.

You may be easy about that.