I know he never has felt confidence in him.

But I've always thought, perhaps that was because he was--well--a little jealous and suspicious.

You know men are so apt to be suspicious; and I was sure, when he went away that last Monday morning, that he would not leave a stone unturned in finding out everything about him.

It is that that's kept him, I am sure.

Don't let that make you feel hardly toward Richard," she went on, noticing perhaps my look; "you know it's only natural, and besides, it's right.