Why do you ask Me ?" Blanche did all that could be done toward repairing the error that she had committed.

She kept Geoffrey as far away as Geoffrey had kept _her_ from the truth.
"I happen to know," she replied "that Miss Silvester left the place at which she had been staying about the time when you went out walking yesterday.

And I thought you might have seen her." "Oh?
That's the reason--is it ?" said Geoffrey, with a smile.
The smile stung Blanche's sensitive temper to the quick.

She made a final effort to control herself, before her indignation got the better of her.
"I have no more to say, Mr.Delamayn." With that reply she turned her back on him, and closed the door of the morning-room between them.
Geoffrey descended the house steps and lit his pipe.

He was not at the slightest loss, on this occasion, to account for what had happened.