Then gradually she recovered her balance; the normal Kitty came back. She put out her hand and touched his face.
"You must go back to the House, William."
"Yes, if you are all right."
She sat up, and began to rearrange some of her hair that had slipped down.
"You have carried us both into such heights and depths, darling!" said Ashe, after he had watched her a little in silence, "that I have forgotten to tell you the gossip I brought back from mother this morning."
Kitty paused, interrogatively. She was still pale.
"Do you know that mother is convinced Mary Lyster has made up her mind to marry Cliffe?"
There was a pause, then Kitty said, with incredulous contempt: "He would never dream of marrying her!"
"Not so sure! She has a great deal of money, and Cliffe wants money badly."