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On his way he made a slight divergence from the direct route and paused for a moment outside the flat where Anna was now living. It was nearly one o'clock; but there were lights still in all her windows. Suddenly the door of the flat opened and closed. A man came out, and walking recklessly, almost cannoned into Ennison. He mumbled an apology and then stopped short.
Every one took him for the millionaire, and he had lost his head about me. I well, I lost my temper. I struck him across the face, twisted the steering wheel of the motor, sprang out myself, and left him for dead on the road with the motor on top of him. This is the first act." "Served the beast right," Ennison declared.
To have come to her on such an errand. She felt a hysterical desire to strike him, to burst out crying, to blurt out the whole miserable truth. The effort to maintain her self-control was almost superhuman. "But your people!" she gasped. "Surely Lady Ennison would object, even if it were possible. And the Duke, too I heard him say that a married secretary would be worse than useless to him."
We leave England to-night. "Ever yours, "ANNABEL. Anna moved softly to the window, and threw up the sash. Ennison had disappeared. The man opened his eyes and looked curiously about him. "Where am I?" he muttered. Courtlaw, who was sitting by the bedside, bent over him. "You are in a private room of St. Felix Hospital," he said. "Hospital? What for? What's the matter with me?"
He left the room, and she stood motionless, with flaming cheeks, listening to his retreating footsteps. When she was quite sure that he was gone she took her sister's note from the mantelpiece and slowly broke the seal. "I lied to you. Nigel Ennison was my very good friend, but there is not the slightest reason for your not marrying him, if you wish to do so. "My husband knows all.
"Then you had better ring the bell," she declared, laughing. "The walk has given me an appetite, and I do not feel like waiting till five o'clock. I wonder why on earth the curtains are drawn. It is quite light yet, and I want to have one more look at that angry red sun. Would you mind drawing them back?" Ennison sprang up, but he never reached the curtains.
There was a shout of laughter. Drummond patted him on the shoulder. "Never mind, old chap," he declared. "Let's hope your successor is worthy of you." "You fellows," Ennison said quietly, "are getting a little wild. I have known Miss Pellissier as long as any of you perhaps, and I have seen something of her since her arrival in London.
One she entered and met with a sharp rebuff, which she appeared to receive unmoved. But when she reached the pavement outside her teeth were clenched, and she carried herself unconsciously an inch or so higher. It was just then that she came face to face with Nigel Ennison. He was walking listlessly along, well-dressed, debonnair, good-looking. Directly he saw Anna he accosted her.
"Lady Ferringhall alone?" Ennison exclaimed. "Quite alone, sir." Ennison was dismayed. "For Heaven's sake, Dunster, don't let her out of the carriage, or hansom, or whatever she came in. Say I'm out, away, anything!" "I am sorry, sir," the man answered, "but she had sent away her hansom before I answered the bell. She is in the hall now. The door was thrown open. Annabel entered.
"But I I went to Nigel Ennison for help. I asked him to take me away." She saw him flinch, but he gave no sign of it in his tone. "Perhaps," he said, "I have been to blame. It must be my fault that you have not learnt that your husband is the man to come to at such a time as this. Oh, I think I understand, Annabel.
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