"I want a plain answer to a plain question.

She knows that the boy knocked at the door, and asked if Blue Face was at home.

Does she know what the boy's impudence meant?
Yes?
or No ?" "Yes." "Does she know that it is you who are Blue Face ?" "No." "No!!! Who else does she think it is ?" As he asked the question, Lucilla appeared at the door of the house.

She moved her blind face inquiringly first one way, then the other.

"Oscar!" she called out, "why have you left me alone?
where are you ?" Oscar turned, trembling, to his brother.
"For God's sake forgive me, Nugent!" he said.