“Don’t be foolish, Anne; I am irritable sometimes, and I am not strong——”

“That is why I have borne so much from you.”

“I will go to Witley with you,” he said, ignoring her remark altogether; “that is, if you like, and can raise the money to go. I have none.”


CHAPTER IV.

isher was quite pleased when I asked him if we could get off to Monte Carlo at Whitsuntide for a fortnight,” Walter told Florence a few weeks later.

“Wasn’t he shocked at your gambling propensities?”