“Back again, Harry?” said the latter, wonderingly.
“Yes; the place is shut up. No business to-day,” he said hastily.
“Did you see Madelaine?” asked Louise, anxiously.
He shook his head.
“Or poor Mrs Van Heldre?” said his father.
“No; I thought it would worry them.”
“But you asked how Van Heldre was?”
“No,” said Harry, confusedly. “I—it seemed a pity to disturb them.”
“Come back and make amends,” said Vine rather sternly. “They must not think we desert them in their trouble.”
“But both you and Louise have been on this morning.”