"You to dare come 'ere--into my ver' presence ?" Mr.Wilding smiled conciliatingly.

"I came for my wife, my lord," he reminded him.

"It grieves me to intrude upon your lordship at so late an hour, and indeed it was far from my intent.

I had hoped to overtake Sir Rowland before he reached you." "Nom de Dieu!" swore Feversham.

"Ho! A so great effrontery!" He swung round upon Blake again.