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"I was on the terrace," she said, alet It was not because you kept your right name and rank from me I

was on the terrace I saw you and--and Lady Luce!"

He started, and his hand fell to his side He could not speak for a

reat, and in silence he recalled, saw as in a

flash of lightning, all the incidents of that night

"You--you were there? You saw--heard?" he said, half mechanically

"Yes," she said

She was calrave and sad

rather than reproachful

"I saw and heard everything I saw her and Lady Chesney before you ca her friend that you and she were engaged,

that you had parted, but that she still cared for you, and that you

would come back to her; and when you came out of the house on the

terrace, I saw her--and you----Oh, why do you make me tell you? It is

hateful, shameful!"

She turned her face away, as if she could not bear his gaze fixed on her

with a it

"You saw Lady Luce come to meet me, heard her speak to me, saw her kiss