'But it wasn't true?'
'No; certainly it wasn't true. I wonder you can ask me. But, after that, it was impossible for me to stay any longer in the house.'
'Where is Madame Delacour, is she with her husband?'
'No; she's separated from him. She's gone back to her own people. She lives with them somewhere in the south near Pau, I think.'
'She's not with Darres?'
Mildred hesitated.
'No; she's not living with him; but I daresay they see each other occasionally.'
'They can't see each other very often if she's living near Pau, and he's editing a paper in Paris.'
XX.
One morning after breakfast Harold said as he rose from table, 'You must be very lonely here. Don't you think you would like some one to keep you company? Mrs. Fargus is in London; we might ask her, she'd be glad to come; you used to like her.'