The colour which had been on her cheeks when she first entered had gone before now, but at my words it returned a little.
"Didn't my lord tell you?" I asked.
"I haven't seen him alone this week past," she answered.
But she had seen Carford alone, and that in the last hour past. It was strange that he, who had known my intention and commended it so highly, should not have touched on it. I looked in her eyes; I think she followed my thoughts, for she glanced aside, and said in visible embarrassment,
"Shall we return?"
"You haven't spoken on the matter with my Lord Carford, then?" I asked.
She hesitated a moment, then answered as though she did not love the truth but must tell it,
"Yes; but he said nothing of this. Tell me of it."
So I told her in simple and few words what I had done.