But there was a bit about Miss Rachel added at the end, which will account for the steadiness of Mr.Franklin's determination, if it accounts for nothing else.
"You will wonder, I dare say" (her ladyship wrote), "at my allowing my own daughter to keep me perfectly in the dark.

A Diamond worth twenty thousand pounds has been lost--and I am left to infer that the mystery of its disappearance is no mystery to Rachel, and that some incomprehensible obligation of silence has been laid on her, by some person or persons utterly unknown to me, with some object in view at which I cannot even guess.

Is it conceivable that I should allow myself to be trifled with in this way?
It is quite conceivable, in Rachel's present state.

She is in a condition of nervous agitation pitiable to see.

I dare not approach the subject of the Moonstone again until time has done something to quiet her.