“Well, I shan’t forget. I’ll take care to let him know, and you may depend upon me.”


CHAPTER XXXIX.

VANE TREVOR OPENS HIS MIND

After a silence, Mr. Vane Trevor, whose thoughts were not quite abandoned to Henbane and his friend William Maubray, but had begun to flow in a more selfish channel, said—

“Miss Darkwell, I suppose, in the garden?”

“Violet’s gone for a few days to our friends, the Mainwarings, at their new Rectory; they seem to like it extremely.”

“Oh, do they? That’s delightful,” said Trevor, who looked very dismal. “And so Miss Darkwell is there?”

Miss Perfect nodded.