Chapter 15: Chapter 15

XIV Half an hour later I was back at the house, and was informing Miss Halcombe of all that had happened. She listened to me from beginning to end with a steady, silent attention, which, in a woman of her temperament and disposition, was the strongest proof that could be offered of the serious manner in which my narrative affected her. “My mind misgives me,” was all she said when I had done. “My mind misgives me sadly about the future.” “The future may depend,” I suggested, “on the u…