"And you can not find her? Disappeared?"
He took up his hat.
"Disappeared," he repeated, grimly.
"And that is why he is wretched and unhappy," she said, with a sigh. "How—how he must love her after all!" and her head drooped.
Ralph Duncombe moistened his lips.
"Yes," he said. "But perhaps she did not care for him. Any way, you see it is she who has left him, not he who has left her."
"Yes," she said, and she pushed the hair from her fair forehead with an impatient gesture. "Oh, I cannot understand it! The engagement broken off! Disappeared! But there must be an end to these law proceedings now, Mr. Duncombe."
"There can be only one way of terminating them," he said.
"And that?"
"Is by paying the money into court," he said. "The thing has gone too far."