“The fact is—but you’ll be secret?”

“Coorse.”

“It isn’t a thing I’d tell everybody—”

“What?”

“You see, if her husband has treated her like a brute, she’s his wife, after all.”

Davy drew up on the path. “What is it?” he said.

“I’m to meet her to-night, alone,” said Lovibond.

“No!”

“Yes; in the grounds of Castle Mona, by the waterfall, after dark—at eight o’clock, in fact.

“Castle Mona—by the waterfall—eight o’clock—that’s a—now, that must be a—”