"I never said so."
"No, but you looked it."
Victoria laughed, and departed with Mrs. Trubbles and her hostess to put her wraps on, while the three gentlemen had a short smoke and conversation, after which they all separated for the night.
Eustace walked silently back in the moonlight with Mrs. Trubbles who did all the talking; and the young couple behind them talked Chinese metaphysics.
[CHAPTER VIII.]
EUSTACE EXAMINES HIS MIND.
"I looked into my mind,
And what did I find?
The waifs of the life I had left behind.
"The tears of a girl,