Dear sir, don't agitate poor Walter or my dear father with this vile thing (she handed him back the certificate).

It has been a knife to both our hearts; we have suffered together, you and I, and let us get to the bottom of it together." "We shall soon do that," said the Colonel, "for he is coming here to-morrow again." "All the better." "With the lady." "What lady ?" "The lady that calls herself Mrs.Walter Clifford." "Indeed!" said Grace, quite taken aback.

"They must be very bold." "Oh, for that matter," said the Colonel, "I insisted upon it; the man seemed to know nothing but from mere hearsay.

He knew nothing about William Hope, the witness, so I told him he must bring the woman; and, to be just to the man, he seemed to think so too, and that she ought to do her own business." "She will not come," said Grace, rather contemptuously.

"He was obliged to say she would, just to put a face upon it.