Quite right," said Ralph, unheeding; "but you and he missed the best part of the whole thing.

Great Scot! when I saw them come dodging round under the Black Rock and--" He was off again; and Charles doubted afterwards, as he fell asleep in his arm-chair by the fire, whether Ralph, already slumbering peacefully opposite him, had paid the least attention to what he had told him, and would not have entirely forgotten it in the morning.

And, in fact, he did, and it was not until Evelyn desired, with dignity, on the morrow, that another time unsuitable persons should not be brought at midnight to _her_ house, that he remembered what had happened.
Charles, who was present, immediately took the blame upon himself, but Evelyn was not to be appeased.

By this time the whole neighborhood was ringing with the news of the arrival of a foreign wife at Vandon, and Evelyn felt that Dare's presence in her blue bedroom, with crockery and crewel-work curtains to match, compromised that apartment and herself, and that he must incontinently depart out of it.

It was in vain that Ralph and even Charles expostulated.