"I don't think it will be safe to disregard it."
"What! you think it possible that your friend is doing as she says?"
"It is certainly possible. He was angry when he found that Lily had
no fortune."
"Heavens, Bernard! And you can speak of it in that way?"
"I don't say that it is true; but I think we should look to it. I
will go to Courcy Castle and learn the truth."
The squire at last decided that he would go. He went to Courcy
Castle, and found that Crosbie had started two hours before his
arrival. He asked for Lady Julia, and learned from her that Crosbie
had actually left the house as the betrothed husband of Lady
Alexandrina.
"The countess, I am sure, will not contradict it, if you will see
her," said Lady Julia. But this the squire was unwilling to do. He
would not proclaim the wretched condition of his niece more loudly
than was necessary, and therefore he started on his pursuit of
Crosbie. What was his success on that evening we have already
learned.
Both Lady Alexandrina and her mother heard of Mr Dale's arrival at
the castle, but nothing was said between them on the subject.
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