Before my journey to Hanau, I might have attributed the widow's inquiries to mere curiosity.

I believed suspicion to be the ruling motive with her, now.
Before any more questions could be asked, Mr.Engelman changed the topic to a subject of greater interest to himself.

"I have told David, dear lady, of Mr.Keller's inhuman reception of your letter." "Don't say 'inhuman,'" Madame Fontaine answered gently; "it is I alone who am to blame.

I have been a cause of estrangement between you and your partner, and I have destroyed whatever little chance I might once have had of setting myself right in Mr.Keller's estimation.

All due to my rashness in mentioning my name.