"You are glad to have him back again with you, I dare say.

Ah yes, yes" (Mrs.
Douglas's eyes had answered for her).

"Did he tell you that he met me?
I saw him on Wednesday last for the first time since his return to London.
How long was he away ?" "Two years," she replied, with slow emphasis, as if such an absence were hardly credible.

"Two long years.

He has been staying in Paris, in Venice, in Florence: a month here, a week there, dissatisfied everywhere.