As he read his wife's note, consisting only of a few lines, he felt he loved her very dearly. She had gone to Richmond, she could not bear to see him so changed towards her.
"When you have forgiven me, if you can forgive me, then I will come back," she said.
Paul knew he had forgiven her, but he was still sore about that third person intervening. He was on his way to Richmond before many minutes were over.
Grace received him with intense satisfaction, she was ready to promise everything. Then came that question about Sir Albert Gerald.
"Is it possible you do not really understand all that story?" asked Grace, who, now, with that weight removed from her mind, and restored to her husband's affection, was in tremendous spirits.
"I understand nothing about him. What story do you mean?"
Then his wife enlightened him.
"I was to let him know about Margaret when I thought it would not hurt his cause—I was to send for him."
"Oh!" said Paul, "then you think he is in love with Margaret?"
"I do not think it, I know," she answered, laughing.