repeated Blanche Farrow in a dubious tone.

It was not Varick who had told Blanche Farrow of that painful episode of his past life.

During the last few days he had made a real conquest of Miss Burnaby, who, with the one startling exception of the emotion betrayed by her at the séance, secretly struck both him and Blanche Farrow as the most commonplace human being with whom either had ever come in contact.

Lionel Varick sat at one end of the long oak refectory table, Blanche Farrow at the other.