"I want to tell you," he began, "something that I have done." He paused, and added a question, "Ruston does not come back to Dieppe, I suppose?"
"I think not. He is detained on business," she answered, "and he will be more tied when my husband leaves."
"Your husband will not long be concerned in the Omofaga," said he.
She started; the Baron told her what he had told Semingham.
"He will soon resign his place on the Board, you will see," he ended.
She sat silent.
"He will have nothing more to do with it, you will see;" and, turning to her, he asked with a sudden spurt of vigour, "Do you know why?"
"How should I?" she answered steadily.
"And I—I have done my part too. I have left him some money (she knew that the Baron did not mean her husband) and all the shares I held."
"You've done that?" she cried, with a sudden light in her eyes.