Nothing could prevent that now.

'Darvell,' he said, as he turned towards the hall steps, 'you must see these men off the premises.

The less you say to them the better.' 'We'll only just tell him all about it as we goes along comfortable,' said Adamson.

Darvell, who was a good sort of man in his way,--slow rather than stupid, weighted with the ordinary respect which a servant has for his master,--had heard it all, but showed no particular anxiety to hear more.

He accompanied the men down to the Causeway, hardly opening his mouth to them, while they were loud in denouncing the meanness of the man who had deserted a wife in Australia, and had then betrayed a young lady here in England.
'What were they talking about ?' said his wife to him when they were alone.