He has done enough to redeem
his honour."
Harry Feversham's return might be a little awkward for Durrance, and
Lieutenant Sutch with that notion in his mind blurted out his sentences
awkwardly, but to his surprise Durrance answered him at once.
"I was waiting for you to say that. I wanted you to realise without any
suggestion of mine that Harry must return. It was with that object that
I came."
Lieutenant Sutch's relief was great. He had been prepared for an
objection, at the best he only expected a reluctant acquiescence, and in
the greatness of his relief he spoke again:--
"His return will not really trouble you or your wife, since Miss Eustace
has forgotten him."
Durrance shook his head.
"She has not forgotten him."
"But she kept silence, even after Willoughby had brought the feather
back. You told me so this afternoon. She said not a word to you. She
forbade Willoughby to tell you."
"She is very true, very loyal," returned Durrance. "She has pledged
herself to me, and nothing in the world, no promise of happiness, no
thought of Harry, would induce her to break her pledge. I know her. But
I know too that she only plighted herself to me out of pity, because I
was blind.
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