'For shame!' she cried with indignation that seemed to her hearers inexplicable.

'Be silent, will you ?' Sir George stared with the others.

'Oh!' said Lady Dunborough, 'so you have found your voice, have you, miss--now that there is a gentleman here ?' 'But--what is it all about ?' Sir George asked.
'They took your rooms, sir,' the landlord explained respectfully.
'Pooh! is that all ?' Soane answered contemptuously.

What moved him he could not tell; but in his mind he had chosen his side.

He did not like Lady Dunborough.
'But they are not,' the landlord objected, 'they are not the persons they say they are, Sir George.' 'Chut!' said Soane carelessly.