"You will stay to lunch?" she said....
"Thank you, Lady Eleanor, not this morning.
"I have to attend a board meeting, and shall be late as it is."
"I am sorry."
She gave him her hand, and as he held it she said, as if at a sudden thought:
"Did you—did you get those bills I asked you about?"
"Lord Auchester's?" he said, and he noticed that her hand quivered. "Yes, I bought them up." He looked at her gravely. "It cost rather a larger sum than I expected."
"You mean that he was very much in debt?" she said, in a low voice, and with downcast eyes.
"Yes, very much," he replied, laconically.