"You came to see my husband?"
"Yes, madam."
The Countess moved towards the mantelpiece.
"Do you love your brother, sir?" she asked abruptly, and fixed her powerful dark eyes on him.
Marius Lyndwood made an effort to meet her on her own ground.
"What is your meaning in that question, madam?"
"This meaning," she answered, "that I do not think you know him——"
"My lord has ever done his duty by me," said Marius.
"There is the point," cried the Countess. "You do not guess how he has behaved to me."