"He told you, ma'am ?" he questioned.

"He told you what ?" "What you had done at White's.

How to all present and to my Lord Rotherby's own face you had related the true story of what befell at Maidstone--how I had gone thither, an innocent, foolish maid, to be married to a villain, whom, like the silly child I was, I thought I loved; how that villain, taking advantage of my innocence and ignorance, intended to hoodwink me with a mock-marriage.
"That was the story that was on every lip; it had gone round the town like fire; and it says much for the town that what between that and the foul business of the duel, my Lord Rotherby was receiving on every hand the condemnation he deserves, while for me there was once more--and with heavy interest for the lapse from it--the respect which my indiscretion had forfeited, and which would have continued to be denied me but for your noble championing of my cause.
"That, sir, is the extent to which.

I am in your debt.

Do you think it small?
It is so great that I have no words in which to attempt to express my thanks." Mr.Caryll looked at her a moment with eyes that were very bright.