Her boy would at
any rate be safe with her now, and it was her duty to learn something
of her husband. It was more than her duty, if only her services might be
of avail to him. 'And you say he was well?' she asked. She had taken Mr
Glascock apart, and they were alone together, and he had determined
that he would tell her the truth.
'I do not know that he is ill, though he is pale and altered beyond
belief.'
'Yes I saw that.'
'I never knew a man so thin and haggard.'
'My poor Louis!'
'But that is not the worst of it.'
'What do you mean, Mr Glascock?'
'I mean that his mind is astray, and that he should not be left alone.
There is no knowing what he might do. He is so much more alone there
than he would be in England. There is not a soul who could interfere.'
'Do you mean that you think that he is in danger from himself?'
'I would not say so, Mrs Trevelyan; but who can tell? I am sure of this,
that he should not be left alone. If it were only because of the misery
of his life, he should not be left alone.
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