Mrs.Lascelles, I have been all the week looking for you and you alone." I spoke with some warmth, for not only did I speak the truth, but it had become more and more the truth at every stage of my journey since Brigues.

Mrs.Lascelles leant back in her chair and surveyed me with less anger, but with the purer and more pernicious scorn.
"And what business had you to do that ?" she asked calmly.

"How dare you, I should like to know ?" "I dared," said I, "because I owed you a debt which, I felt, must be paid in person, or it would never be paid at all.

Mrs.Lascelles, I owed and do owe you about the most abject apology man ever made! I have followed you all this way for no other earthly reason than to make it, in all sincere humility.

But it has taken me more or less since Tuesday morning; and I can't kneel here.