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'Then appearances will speak falsely; and how can that matter, even if they do? I shall be your husband sooner or later, for certain, and so prove your purity'

'Stephen, once in London I ought to have married you,' she said firs now than I did yesterday My only reht for most desperately'

They stepped out Elfride pulled a thick veil over her face

A wo on a bench just inside the office-door She fixed her eyes upon Elfride with an expression whose force it was i of which was not clear; then upon the carriage they had left She seemed to read a sinister story in the scene

Elfride shrank back, and turned the other way

'Who is that woman?' said Stephen 'She looked hard at you'

'Mrs Jethway--a , and ht Stephen, she is h upon me to have hidden this from HER!'

'Do not talk so hopelessly,' he renized us'

'I pray that she did not'

He put on a et soet back to Endelstow'

Elfride was as if she had grown years older than Stephen now

'But you have had nothing since last night but that cup of tea at Bristol'