Volume Three—Chapter Ten.
A Visit in the Dark.
“I don’t like it, Mary. North has completely shut himself up. He will not even see Mrs Milt, so she tells me, and she is getting very uneasy about his state.”
Mary looked up at her brother. She could not trust herself to speak.
“I pity him, and yet I feel annoyed and hurt, for I gave him credit for greater strength of mind.”
Mary felt that she knew what was coming, but she dared not open her lips.
“Of course it was very painful to find out the woman he had made his idol was trifling with him, but I should have thought that Horace North would have proved himself to be a man of the world, borne his burden patiently, and been enough of a philosopher to go on his way without breaking down.”
“But he is very ill.”