were engaged as man and wife.  He had told her all his affairs, had given her the whole history of his life.  This was before his second journey to America, when Hamilton K. Fisker was unknown to him.  But she had told him little or nothing of her own life,—­but that she was a widow, and that she was travelling to Paris on business.  When he left her at the London railway station, from which she started for Dover, he was full of all a lover’s ardour.  He had offered to go with her, but that she had declined.  But when he remembered that he must certainly tell his friend Roger of his engagement, and remembered also how little he knew of the lady to whom he was engaged, he became embarrassed.  What were her means...