"He seemed very sad. He takes it very hard," Fleda added. "No. I knew only that you had had, in London, all that you told me, that day, to do; and it was Mona's idea that after your sister's marriage you were staying on with your father. So I thought you were with him still."!

"Then of course she won't like your changing." CHAPTER III

"I made a point of letting Mona know that I should be here, don't you see? That's exactly what I wrote her this morning." "That he would give his ears to get you?" Mrs. Gereth broke in. "I had a visit from Mrs. Brigstock." Fleda faltered again, wincing at the term of endearment, at what the words took for granted, charged with the confidence she had now committed herself to betray. "I told him I would tell you!" She smiled, but she felt that her smile was rather hollow and even that Mrs. Gereth had begun to look at her with some fixedness.