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Clendon, in his grave voice which had grown very gentle, "you will be glad to hear that it has ended satisfactorily; he has been proved innocent of the crime laid to his charge." "Oh, I'm so glad!" cried Lady Gridborough, delightedly. "But" suddenly "your son? You are his father? I didn't know I thought his father was dead."
Or, rather, I am, but friendship sets a limit to my curiosity. Well, I must be going. I am to make an after-dinner call, by invitation, on a lady. Literally a lady Lady Gridborough." Derrick turned his head sharply, and Reggie, noticing the movement, asked blandly, "Know her?" "I've heard of her," answered Derrick, shortly. "Delightful old lady," observed Reggie.
I ought to have spoken I see now what a fool I have been! My mistaken sense of honour has caused all this trouble; and grieved you very much, I see, dear Lady Gridborough. But how did you learn the truth I mean discover that I had not wronged poor Susie?" "It was Mr. Rex here," said Lady Gridborough, her face all smiles now.
"So I was, madam; to the world; but I have returned from the grave to find my son," said Mr. Clendon. "Well, I am glad!" cried Lady Gridborough. "You must both come and stay with me. Now, you won't refuse, Mr. Dene, will you?" She looked at Mr. Clendon pleadingly, and then with confusion and embarrassment, as they both remained silent.
"You must go back now," said Celia. "Must I? I say, when can I see you again; and how soon? May I write to you and fix up an appointment, or will you write to me? You will, won't you, Miss Grant?" "Yes," said Celia. "I want to hear how the novel goes on. Perhaps Lady Gridborough will let us come to tea at the Grange, if I ask her."
"Oh, well, whenever I see Susie, I think of my own girlhood and its temptations, and say to myself, like the man whose name I can't remember, 'but for the grace of God, there goes Constance Gridborough. Here we are!" They had covered the long drive, and reached a house almost as grand as the hall.
Derrick had got hold of Reggie's hand by this time, and was regarding him with a half-smiling interrogation; and Reggie was also smiling with that air of omniscience and supreme acuteness which sat so curiously on his boyish face. "A future wife should have no secrets from her future husband, as you will be the first to admit, dear Lady Gridborough."
"Oh, Susie, I'm so sorry!" she said, remorsefully; "but I meant to speak to Lady Gridborough to-day about the christening. I have seen her; but she met with an accident; she is all right, quite all right. I will go up to the Grange again to-morrow, and come in to tell you what we have arranged."
"There is no person on earth whose advice I value more highly than yours, Lady Gridborough," said Reggie, as blandly as before; "and in most matters, I should accept it and follow it without hesitation; but, in this matter of my friend, Mr. Sydney Green " "Mr. Sydney what?" broke in the old lady, evidently much agitated.
"Yes," said Celia, in a low voice. "And you come here to me: you offer to to do this! Don't you know that I was driven from my place, the place in which I was born, that every woman I've met, excepting her ladyship, would like to throw a stone at me? Why are you different from the others?" "I don't know," said Celia, simply. "Perhaps it's because Lady Gridborough told me the whole story.
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