The Earl appeared amused.
"Nothing, my dear. I have, naturally, tried—now we will go to the house."
She did not move.
"There must be something we can do?"
The misery of her voice touched him.
"It is good of you to care so, cousin—I might have expected reproaches."
"Since I am in no way involved," she quoted his sentence—"is that what you want to say, Rose?—but my whole life is involved," she added almost dreamily. "Lyndwood to go—you ruined, you and I to tell Marius and my lady so to-night?"
She looked over the quiet park and saw the peaceful lights in Lyndwood House, and she could not believe her own words.
"Ruin!" she repeated.