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' Read it."
He handed her the letter. In taking it, she contrived to touch the lamp
shade, as if by accident, and tilted it so that the full flow of the
light fell on him. He started back--but not before she had seen the
ghastly pallor on his face. She had not only heard it from Lady Loring,
she knew from his own unreserved confession to her what that startling
change really meant. In an instant she was on her knees at his feet.
"Oh, my darling," she cried, "it was cruel to keep _that_ secret from
your wife! You have heard it again!"
She was too irresistibly beautiful, at that moment, to be reproved. He
gently raised her from the floor--and owned the truth.
"Yes," he said; "I heard it after you left me on the Belvidere--just as
I heard it on another moonlight night, when Major Hynd was here with me.
Our return to this house is perhaps the cause. I don't complain; I have
had a long release."
She threw her arms round his neck. "We will leave Vange to-morrow," she
said.
It was firmly spoken. But her heart sank as the words passed her lips.


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