Romayne."
"If you will kindly call at my hotel in an hour's time, I shall have
looked over my notes, and shall be ready for you with a list of titles
and dates. There is the address."
With those words, he advanced to take his leave of Lady Loring and
Stella.
Father Benwell was a man possessed of extraordinary power of
foresight--but he was not infallible. Seeing that Romayne was on the
point of leaving the house, and feeling that he had paved the way
successfully for Romayne's amanuensis, he too readily assumed that there
was nothing further to be gained by remaining in the gallery. Moreover,
the interval before Penrose called at the hotel might be usefully filled
up by some wise words of advice, relating to the religious uses to which
he might turn his intercourse with his employer. Making one of his
ready and plausible excuses, he accordingly returned with Penrose to the
library--and so committed (as he himself discovered at a later time) one
of the few mistakes in the long record of his life.
In the meanwhile, Romayne was not permitted to bring his visit to a
conclusion without hospitable remonstrance on the part of Lady Loring.
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