He never alluded again to Madame de la Rougierre.

But whether connected with her exposure and dismissal, I could not say, there did appear to be some new care or trouble now at work in my father's mind.
'I have been thinking a great deal about you, Maud.

I am anxious.

I have not been so troubled for years.

Why has not Monica Knollys a little more sense ?' This oracular sentence he spoke, having stopped me in the hall; and then saying, 'We shall see,' he left me as abruptly as he appeared.
Did he apprehend any danger to me from the vindictiveness of Madame?
A day or two afterwards, as I was in the Dutch garden, I saw him on the terrace steps.