My lord gave a start and looked round; a sigh escaped him, then he bitterly smiled and quietly laid the picture down.
It was none of it great or heroic; as Marius had said, there was nothing to do but to go on. Meanwhile the Countess Agatha must be told.
He extinguished the other light and went in search of Susannah Chressham.
CHAPTER X
A LADY SCORNED
When the Countess Lavinia left the library she went instantly and stealthily to the foot of the great stairway.
"Honoria!" she called in a hushed yet insistent voice. "Honoria!"
A slight figure in a light dress and mob cap appeared on the first wide landing.