"I want to speak to you." Jeanne turned unwillingly round, and her step-mother drew her into the shelter of the open door.
"Jeanne," she said, "you seem to meet your friend the fisherman very often.

If you should see anything of him to-morrow, I wish you would inquire particularly as to his lodger.

You know whom I mean, the man who was on the island with him yesterday afternoon." Jeanne looked at her stepmother curiously.
"What am I to ask about him ?" she demanded.
"Where he comes from, and what he is doing here," the Princess said.
"Find out if you can if Berners is really his name.

I have a curious idea about him, and Cecil fancies that he has seen him before." Jeanne looked for a minute interested.
"You are not usually so curious about people," she remarked.
The Princess lowered her voice a little.
"Jeanne," she said, "I will tell you something.

Lord Ronald, when he left here, was very angry with us all.