"That she might go mad or die," was the quick answer: it came from Flora Bellasys.
"How good of you," Guy said, "to let me finish that long story, when you knew it by heart."
I think no ear but his and mine caught the whisper—"I never read or heard of it till now."
He bent his head in assent, as if the intelligence did not surprise him much, and then spoke suddenly,
"Charley, will you make an observation? You have been displaying that incontestable talent of yours for silence long enough."
Very seldom was Forrester taken by surprise, but this time his reply was not ready. There was an embarrassing pause, broken by a Deus ex machinâ,—the butler announcing that Mr. Bruce had arrived, and was in the drawing-room.
CHAPTER XI.
"And now thou knowest thy father's will,
All that thy sex hath need to know: