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"That is so," the earl replied. "He wrote to me over a fortnight ago. In fact, before you arrived at all, and told me exactly how he was situated. Mind you, he didn't want to do it, he is just as proud as ever he was. But he told me practically everything, and asked if I could help him to get out to the other side of the world, where he hoped, yet, to do something decent and respectable before he died. So, being under such an obligation to Rupert Glynn I wrote and asked him to come down here, and he is coming. He ought to be here in time for dinner this evening. We will go and meet him together if you like. And now, as to another matter. What do you think I ought to do, so far as Roy is concerned?"
"I am not going to tell you," Alcie said spiritedly. "And all the more so, because you know precisely what your duty is in the matter. You ought never to have turned your back upon him. It wasn't his fault that his mother married against your wishes."