To pacify her he took a splendidly furnished house in the most expensive part of Brighton for them, and now and then ran down for a week-end, with a trunk full of exquisite sweets and with his hat full of money.

The governess spent it for him in extra ducal style.

She was nearly forty and harboured a secret taste for patronizing young men of sorts--of a certain sort.

But of that Mrs.Fyne of course had no personal knowledge then; she told me however that even in the Priory days she had suspected her of being an artificial, heartless, vulgar-minded woman with the lowest possible ideals.

But de Barral did not know it.