"Are you going away, Julian?"
"I am only going to the lodge-keeper. I want to give him a word
of warning in case of his seeing her again."
"You will come back here?" (Lady Janet lowered her voice to a
whisper.) "There is really a reason, Julian, for your not leaving
the house now."
"I promise not to go away, aunt, until I have provided for your
security. If you, or your adopted daughter, are alarmed by
another intrusion, I give you my word of honor my card shall go
to the police station, however painfully I may feel it myself."
(He, too, lowered his voice at the next words ) "In the meantime,
remember what I confessed to you while we were alone. For my
sake, let me see as little of Miss Roseberry as possible. Shall I
find you in this room when I come back?"
"Yes."
"Alone?"
He laid a strong emphasis, of look as well as of tone, on that
one word. Lady Janet understood what the emphasis meant.
"Are you really," she whispered, "as much in love with Grace as
that?"
Julian laid one hand on his aunt's arm, and pointed with the
other to Horace--standing with his back to them, warming his feet
on the fender.
"Well?" said Lady Janet.
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