"I do not want him to come," cried Pam with a great sob.
"I sent him away because I was afraid if he came to you now you would make him and yourself unhappy. He hated to go, but he went. He will come again. You will be good to him, Pam, because you love him. Now, good-bye, my dear. I shall come back when you are married."
Pamela's hands were over her eyes, and she was crying quietly.
"Another thing, Pam," he said. "I have arranged with your father. He is to winter abroad."
"Sylvia will see to that," she answered. "Miss Spencer has made it easy for her. At least, we need not take that from you."
"You have given me great happiness," he repeated. "And now, good-bye, my dear, good-bye."
A day or two later Carrickmoyle was startled by the news that Lord Glengall had sailed for Australia.