Transcriber’s Notes Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation have been standardised but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged. Italics are represented thus _italic_. Decorative images before and after every chapter have not been referenced. TORWOOD’S TRUST. A Novel. BY EVELYN EVERETT-GREEN. ‘Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety ... I protest, our plot is as good a plot as ever was laid.’ HENRY IV., _Pt. I., Act II., Sc. III._ IN THREE VOLUMES VOL. II. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON, Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen. 1884. [_All Rights Reserved._] CONTENTS OF VOL. II. CHAPTER PAGE I. A SECOND ALFRED BELASSIS 1 II. MRS. BELASSIS VISITS LADYWELL 21 III. THE MISSING PAPER 40 IV. WILD OATS 59 V. A VISIT TO GERMANY 79 VI. DISCOMFITED 97 VII. BETSY LONG 117 VIII. BETROTHED 135 IX. A GUEST FROM ITALY 155 X. FRIEND OR FOE? 176 XI. MRS. BELASSIS FINDS AN ALLY 197 XII. MISS MARJORY’S OPINIONS 218 XIII. PLOTS AND COUNTERPLOTS 237 XIV. AN AGREEABLE DINNER 258 XV. MAUD’S DECISION 278 TORWOOD’S TRUST. CHAPTER I. A SECOND ALFRED BELASSIS. Miss Marjory’s carefully planned dinner was a marked success, and was followed by a very pleasant evening, spent partly in the sweet, old-fashioned and faultlessly kept garden, and partly in the cool, softly lighted drawing-room. Miss Marjory’s guest and deputy landlord made himself most agreeable. He talked politics and science with Miss Marjory, told anecdotes and traveller’s tales to Ethel, and discussed town talk with Horace, who had not long left London for Whitbury.