Then she rallied.

“Sir!” she said, with a haughty uplifting of her proud head.

“Madame!”

“I do not understand you.”

“Did you not? Shall I repeat my question?” was the quiet query.

She made a gesture of impatience.

“You have made a mistake,” the lady returned, but her eyes were searching the druggist’s face with a lightning glance, while that deadly paleness again overspread her own.

“Nay, madame,” was the bland rejoinder; “I am one of the few men in the world who never forget either a face or a name! Mrs. Marston, surely you have not forgotten Doctor Thomas Turner who waited upon you at the —— House one bitter night in the winter of 18—.”

CHAPTER XXXI.
A RETROSPECTIVE GLANCE.

It was indeed Doctor Turner, although twenty years or more had changed him greatly.