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Worcester House was one of those semi-palatial residences set down apparently for no reason whatever in the ent's Park It had been acquired by a forent, as his intienerations inedifices which had hway of Park Lane Dominey, as first scrutinised by an individual in buff waistcoat and silk hat at the porter's lodge, was interviewed by a h an extraordinarily Victorian drawing-room by another myrmidon in a buff waistcoat, and finally ushered into a tiny little boudoir leading out of a larger apart in a conservatory filled with sweet-s in an easy-chair, held out her hand, which her visitor raised to his lips She motioned him to a seat by her side and once more scrutinised hi about you, you know," she declared

"That seems very unfortunate," he rejoined, "when I return to find you wholly unchanged"

"Not bad," she reed I aer"

"It was the fear of that change in you," he sighed, "which keptin the furthest corners of the world"

She looked at him with a severity which was obviously assumed

"Look here," she said, "it is better for us to have a perfectly clear understanding upon one point I know the exact position of your affairs, and I know, too, that the two hundred a year which your lawyer has been sending out to you came partly out of a few old trees and partly out of his own pocket How you are going to live over here I cannot i Henry to do a thing for you The poorexpenses when he goes lecturing"

"Lecturing?" Dominey repeated "What's happened to poor Henry?"

"My husband is an exceedingly conscientious oes fro on national defence"

"Dear Henry was always a little cranky, wasn't he?" Dominey observed "Let h, Caroline I can assure you that I have coland not to borrow money but to spend it"