You understand?"
"Of course I understand, my poor Dick."
She stooped to kiss him. But he was fast asleep already.
She went out and locked the door, and when, on the point of setting
out for Count Redondo's, she returned the bunch of keys to Bridget
the key of the alcove was missing.
"I shall require it again in the morning, Bridget," she explained
lightly. And then added kindly, as it seemed: "Don't wait for me,
child. Get to bed. I shall be late in coming home, and I shall
not want you."
CHAPTER VI
MISS ARMYTAGE'S PEARLS
Lady O'Moy and Miss Armytage drove alone together into Lisbon.
The adjutant, still occupied, would follow as soon as he possibly
could, whilst Captain Tremayne would go on directly from the
lodgings which he shared in Alcantara with Major Carruthers - also
of the adjutant's staff - whither he had ridden to dress some twenty
minutes earlier.
"Are you ill, Una?" had been Sylvia's concerned greeting of her
cousin when she came within the range of the carriage lamps. "You
are pale as a ghost." To this her ladyship had replied mechanically
that a slight headache troubled her.
But now that they sat side by side in the well upholstered carriage
Miss Armytage became aware hat her companion was trembling.
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