Fool! Why," he added curtly, "did you later spy upon my cousin's camp when Tregar had expressly forbidden it ?" It was an unexpected question.

Themar flushed uncomfortably.

Carl had a way of reading between the lines that was exceedingly disconcerting.
His information, he said at length after an interval of marked hesitancy, had been too meager.

He had listened at the door once when the Baron had spoken of Miss Westfall to his secretary.

A housemaid had frightened him away and he had bolted upstairs--to attend to something else while they were both safely occupied.