"Did he go through the house?"
"No; he only stayed a few minutes, but he was seen looking very hard at the front door, as though something attracted him. Then he returned by another route, and had lunch with that old man who has a cottage near one of the lodge gates."
"Hugh Stanmore—yes, I remember."
"After lunch he went through the park with the old man's granddaughter. They were talking very earnestly."
The Count leapt to his feet.
"You saw this girl?" he asked.
"Yes. A girl about twenty, I should think. Very pretty in a simple, countrified way. She is very much loved among the cottage people. I should say she's a very religious girl. I'm told that she has since become engaged to be married to a Sir George Weston, who was a soldier in Egypt."
"Sir George Weston. Let me think. Yes; I remember. Ah, she is engaged to be married to him, is she?"
"That is the rumour. Sir George was staying at Stanmore's cottage at the time of Faversham's visit. He left the day after."
"And Faversham has not been there since?"