My lord lifted his grey eyes and smiled insolently.

"Where is she?"

"I will show you where I left her," answered Marius briefly.

They moved away in silence, two erect figures, much of a height, each with grey curls flowing under the knot of black velvet, and the graceful domino caught over the sword.

Neither had given her a word or a look as they left. She crouched against the wall and stared after them.

Hesitatingly came the first bars of the melody of a minuet.


CHAPTER VII

MY LORD SPEAKS