"None."
"Or between you and him?"
"No;—none. We are greater allies than ever."
"Then why are you not going to be at Loughlinter? She has written to me expressly saying you would not be there."
He paused a moment before he replied. "It did not suit," he said at last.
"It is a secret then?"
"Yes;—it is a secret. You are not angry with me?"
"Angry; no."
"It is not a secret of my own, or I should not keep it from you."
"Perhaps I can guess it," she said. "But I will not try. I will not even think of it."