“I understand,” stammered Curtis, look
ing at Good. “I understand that you were
attached—eh—attached to—to the Queen
Sorais. I am—eh—not aware what Phe—
in short, the state of your feelings may be
just now; but if they happened to be that
way inclined, it has struck me that—in
short, it might put a satisfactory end to an
unpleasant business. The lady also has
ample private estates, where I am sure she
would be at liberty to live unmolested so
far as we are concerned, eh, Nyleptha? Of
course, I onlv suggest.”
"So far as I am concerned," said Good,
coloring up, "I am quite willing to forget
the past, and if the Lady of the Night
thinks me worth having. I will marry her
to-morrow, or when she likes, and try to
make her a good husband.”
All eyes were now turned to Sorais, who
stool with that same slow smile upon her
beautiful face that I ha I noticed the first
time that I ever saw her. She paused a
little while, and cleared her throat, aud
then thrice she curtseyed low, ouce to Ny
leptha, once to Curtis, and onca to Good,
and began to speak in measured tones.
