It will be fully eleven, probably half past, before be comes home.

He will find this anonymous communication awaiting him.

He will fume and stamp and spurn it, but he will go, all the same.

And then!" She sealed the note, directed it in the same atrocious fist to the baronet, and then, rising, proceeded to undress.
But not to go to bed.

A large bundle lay on a chair; she opened it, drew forth a full suit of man's attire--an evening suit that the young baronet had worn but a few times, and the very counterpart of that which he wore to-night.
Miss Silver stood before the glass and arrayed herself in these.