"You have received orders about me?"
"Yes, sir."
"When?"
"Sorry, sir; but last night, sir. You were to be ordered away if you came."
Leicester laughed bitterly.
"Ah, I see. Mr. and Miss Castlemaine left last night, and they told no one but the housekeeper where they were going, but they gave orders that the dogs were to be set upon me."
"Not quite so bad as that, sir, but——"
"I see. Yes, I understand."
"You see Miss Castlemaine is very ill, sir," said the man, as though he recollected something. "Of course that was why the wedding couldn't take place. A sort of stroke I think it was."
Leicester laughed aloud.