She shook her head.
"No, no; I saw—" She stopped, and the color flew to her face. "I saw him buying the—the wedding ring."
Ralph stared at her, then he smiled grimly.
"He may have bought a ring, but not for himself," he said. "It may have been for the duke, for it was the duke she was going to marry, Lady Eleanor."
"How—how do you know?"
"Miss Lisle herself told me."
She started.
"She! Where—where is she?"
"She is the teacher at the school at Newfold."
Lady Eleanor sank into a chair, and looked up at him with frightened eyes.