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He saw her turn pale; he saw distress in her face, which he interpreted as a silent reproach to him for the questions he had asked. "I hope you will forgive me?" he said simply. She was astonished. "What have I to forgive?" "My want of delicacy." "Oh, Captain Bennydeck, you speak of one of your great merits as if it were a fault! Over and over again I have noticed your delicacy, and admired it."
Presty's vigorous intellect discovered an improbability here. "Then how came you to feel interested in him?" she objected. Even Randal's patience gave way. "I can't account for it," he said sharply. "I only know I took a liking to Captain Bennydeck." He left Mrs. Presty and sat down by his brother. "You know I feel for you," he said, taking Linley's hand. "Try to hope."
Was it really possible that Sydney Westerfield could be the person whom Captain Bennydeck was attempting to trace? Randal threw up the window which overlooked the drive in front of the house. Too late! The carriage which had brought the Captain to Mount Morven was no longer in sight.
Without one word of explanation, Catherine stepped up to him, and spoke first. "Answer me this," she said "have you told Captain Bennydeck who I am?" "Not yet." The shortest possible reply was the only reply that he could make, in the moment when he first looked at her. She was not the same woman whom he had last seen at Sandyseal, returning for her lost book.
The nursemaid had missed the child, and had come into the garden to see if she was with her mother. "Where is Miss Kitty, ma'am?" the girl asked. Her mistress told her what had happened, and sent her to the Palace to relieve Captain Bennydeck of the charge that he had undertaken. Susan listened, looking at Sydney and recognizing the familiar face. As the girl moved away, Sydney spoke to her.
The sense of honor which had prompted Catherine's resolution to make Bennydeck acquainted with the catastrophe of married life, might plead her excuse in the estimation of a man devotedly attached to her.
While his client's pecuniary affairs were still unsettled, the lawyer had his claim to be taken into her confidence. The next morning found Captain Bennydeck still keeping his rooms at Sydenham. The state of his mind presented a complete contrast to the state of Catherine's mind.
Kitty said good-by mechanically like a dull child repeating a lesson. Her grandmother led her away in silence. Bennydeck closed the door and seated himself by Catherine. "I thank you for your letter," he said. "If such a thing is possible, it has given me a higher opinion of you than any opinion that I have held yet."
Presty on one side, and Kitty on the other, led her between them into the house. Captain Bennydeck met Catherine and her child at the open door of the room. Mrs. Presty, stopping a few paces behind them, waited in the passage; eager to see what the Captain's face might tell her. It told her nothing. But Catherine saw a change in him.
He hurried away to London by the first train, and drove at once to Randal's place of abode to ask for Sydney's address. Wondering what had become of the postscript to his letter, which had given Bennydeck the information of which he was now in search, Randal complied with his friend's request, and then ventured to allude to the report of the Captain's marriage engagement.
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