Ashe disengaged himself.
"I have asked Blanche to pack for me to-night, Kitty. I go home by the early train to-morrow."
"Home!"
She stood petrified; then a light flashed into her face.
"You'll buy it all up? You'll stop it, William?"
Ashe drew himself together.
"I am going home," he said, with slow decision, "to place my resignation in the hands of Lord Parham."
XXI
Kitty fell back in silence, staring at William. She loosened her mantle and threw it off, then she sat down in a chair near the wood fire, and bent over it, shivering.