But whatever he was doing, can your lordship believe that he would have come here to fight a secret duel ?" "It certainly puts a monstrous strain upon belief," said he.

"But what can he have been doing here ?" "I don't know," she repeated.

She wanted to add a warning of O'Moy.

She was tempted to tell his lordship of the odd words that O'Moy had used to her last night concerning Tremayne.

But she hesitated, and her courage failed her.