Chapter 15 A WOMAN'S REMORSE.

HAVING warmed his feet to his own entire satisfaction, Horace turned round from the fireplace, and discovered that he and Lady Janet were alone.

"Can I see Grace?" he asked.

The easy tone in which he put the question-a tone, as it were, of proprietorship in "Grace"-jarred on Lady Janet at the moment. For the first time in her life she found h