"Did you meet her accidentally, when she spoke to you ?" Mr.Franklin pointed to the billiard-table.
"I was knocking the balls about," he said, "and trying to get this miserable business of the Diamond out of my mind.

I happened to look up--and there stood Rosanna Spearman at the side of me, like a ghost! Her stealing on me in that way was so strange, that I hardly knew what to do at first.

Seeing a very anxious expression in her face, I asked her if she wished to speak to me.

She answered, 'Yes, if I dare.' Knowing what suspicion attached to her, I could only put one construction on such language as that.

I confess it made me uncomfortable.