"No!
Even in trifles, I should have been glad to feel that there was perfect
sympathy between us. I like plenty of sugar myself."
Having sweetened his coffee with the closest attention to the process,
he was at liberty to enlighten his young friend. He did it so easily
and so cheerfully that a far less patient man than Penrose would have
listened to him with interest.
CHAPTER III.
THE INTRODUCTION TO ROMAYNE.
"EXCEPTING my employment here in the library," Father Benwell began,
"and some interesting conversation with Lord Loring, to which I shall
presently allude, I am almost as great a stranger in this house, Arthur,
as yourself. When the object which we now have in view was first taken
seriously into consideration, I had the honor of being personally
acquainted with Lord Loring. I was also aware that he was an intimate
and trusted friend of Romayne. Under these circumstances, his lordship
presented himself to our point of view as a means of approaching
the owner of Vange Abbey without exciting distrust. I was charged
accordingly with the duty of establishing myself on terms of intimacy in
this house.
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