This other person was a sister of the count's, who was now living in London, one Madame Gordeloup--Sophie Gordeloup--a lady whom Harry had found sitting in Lady Ongar's room when last he had seen her in Bolton Street.

He had not then heard her name; nor was he aware then, or for some time subsequently, that Count Pateroff had any relative in London.
Lady Ongar had been a fortnight in the country before she received Madame Gordeloup's letter.

In that letter the sister had declared herself to be most anxious that her brother should see Lady Ongar.

The letter had been in French, and had been very eloquent--more eloquent in its cause than any letter with the same object could have been if written by an Englishwoman in English; and the eloquence was less offensive than it might, under all concurrent circumstances, have been had it reached Lady Ongar in English.

The reader must not, however, suppose that the letter contained a word that was intended to support a lover's suit.