"No! where are they, then? at Estcourt Hall?"
"I think not; they left me at Durimond Castle, before I came here at all. They went to Annie then; where they are now I do not know."
"Have they, then, left Annie?"
"Yes! Sir Philip took some exceptions Euphrasie's Jesuitical principles, and the ladies disappeared one day."
"Disappeared! where did they go to?"
"No one knows; truth to say, brother this is a very disagreeable subject; these quarrels about religion are terrible, and have brought much unhappiness to all of us; the less we say about it the better."
"But my aunt and Euphrasie?"
"I have already told you I do not know anything about them, and I must add, I do not wish to know."
"Sister!"
But Adelaide replied no more. Her stateliness and dignity, if they did not awe Eugene, repelled him. He left the house in disgust.