The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) - Page 57/109

Was that all?

On every face there was a tremendous query. But upon the whole it was

concluded that Stanistreet at any rate had had regard to his friend's

honor.

It is the last stone that kills; so, you see, there was a certain

hesitation about hurling it. No educated person believes the evidence

of servants. Besides, when it came to the point, one felt too sorry for

Nevill Tyson to make up one's mind to the worst. So far Miss Batchelor.

Ah, well, he took her away. The last that was seen of Mrs. Nevill Tyson

in Leicestershire was a sad little figure, shrinking away in the corner

of a railway carriage, nursing her guilty secret.