Lady O'Moy was nowhere in sight.

But Lord Wellington was too much engrossed in his discovery to be troubled.
"My dear," he said, "if I can serve you at any time, both for Jack's sake and your own, I hope that you will let me know of it." She looked at him a moment, and he saw her colour come and go, arguing a sudden agitation.
"You tempt me, sir," she said, with a wistful smile.
"Then yield to the temptation, child," he urged her kindly, those keen, penetrating eyes of his perceiving trouble here.
"It isn't for myself," she responded.

"Yet there is something I would ask you if I dare--something I had intended to ask you in any case if I could find the opportunity.

To be frank, that is why I was waiting there in the garden just now.

It was to waylay you.