Now if Geoffrey had done the thing on purpose, how interesting he would be! I should like to know some one who had committed a real murder." "How horrid of you, Harry!" cried the duchess.

"Isn't it, Mr.Gray?
Harry, Mr.Gray is ill again.

He is going to faint." Dorian drew himself up with an effort and smiled.

"It is nothing, Duchess," he murmured; "my nerves are dreadfully out of order.

That is all.