At one time it was reported that he had returned to the United States.

Not long afterwards unaccountable paragraphs appeared in newspapers declaring, at one and the same time, that he was living among bad company in Paris, and that he was hiding disreputably in an ill famed quarter of the city of Dublin, called "the Liberties." In any case there was good reason to fear that Irish-American desperadoes had entangled the wild lord in the network of political conspiracy.
The maid noticed a change in the mistress which surprised her, when she had reached the end of the newspaper story.

Of Miss Henley's customary good spirits not a trace remained.

"Few people, Rhoda, remember what they read as well as you do." She said it kindly and sadly--and she said no more.
There was a reason for this.
Now at one time, and now at another, Iris had heard of Lord Harry's faults and failings in fragments of family history.

The complete record of his degraded life, presented in an uninterrupted succession of events, had now forced itself on her attention for the first time.