“Gad, Miss Fry, would you hound me?” he asked. “I have nothing to tell, alas. You asked me to promise you that I would be careful and I have given you my word.”
Caroline turned her head aside. It was hopeless, she knew. The truth evaded her and there was nothing she could do about it
“Then, my lord, if you will excuse me,” she said. ‘I will return to your Lady Mother.”
She did not look at him and there was disappointment in her voice. She had moved only a step or two towards the door before he was at her side again and had taken her hand in his.
“You will stay, Miss Fry?” he said. “You won’t leave the Castle? I want you to stay.”
Still Caroline did not look at him, then he added,
“But, by God, I ought to ask you to go.”
The words seemed to burst from Lord Brecon’s lips, his fingers
