"And never at Shadynook?"
"I was informed that you had gone home."
"Yes, so I did. But then if you had much—friendship for me, I think you might have followed me."
Mowbray was so much moved by the fascinating glance which accompanied these words, that he could only murmur:
"Follow you, madam?"
"Yes; I believe when gentlemen have friends—particular friends among the ladies, and those friends leave them, they go to seek them."
"I am unfortunately a poor law student, madam—I have little time for visits."
Philippa smiled.
"I am afraid that is an evasion, sir," she said.
"How, madam?"