The Earl came towards her.
"Are you thinking of Marius?"
"No," said Susannah, "of you."
"I am the least to be considered," he answered.
"The most!" she cried. "Could you help what was in your blood?—I knew this must happen, though now I hardly credit it—I knew this must happen."
Rose Lyndwood sighed lightly.
"Let us go on to the house."
But she stood in the doorway.
"Tell me what you mean to do?"
"I do not know—it will be according to how they take it—my lady and Marius."