That was Ongar's fault.

All the world knew it for the last ten years.

No one knew it better than Hugh Clavering." "But--" said Harry, and then he stopped.

He hardly knew what it was that he wished to learn from the man, though he certainly did wish to learn something.

He had thought that the count would himself have talked about Lady Ongar and those Florentine days, but this he did not seem disposed to do.