He sneered at me, but offered me a place as servant in his home, and support and education for his child on condition that the relationship should never be known, and that I would remain silent regarding the will.

I could do nothing then but accept his conditions, but they were galling,--too galling at last to be longer endured!" "How is it that you and Walter bear the name of LaGrange ?" he asked.
She hesitated a moment, then replied: "I married a man by that name soon after leaving Australia." "Before or after the tidings of my father's death ?" he questioned, sternly.
"We heard the news of his death soon after our marriage, but he had deserted me years before, so it made little difference.

I met Captain LaGrange in Sydney, and we sailed together for Paris and were married there, but we soon grew tired of each other.

I left him in about two years and went to Vienna, and from there returned to England.

In some way, Hugh Mainwaring learned of the marriage, and when I came to Fair Oaks, he insisted on my taking that name for myself and child." She spoke wearily and with an air of dejection, for it was plainly evident that Harold Mainwaring was not to be deceived by misstatements, however plausible, nor were his sympathies to be aroused by simulated grief.