It was Bray; if not, why the anxiety to make her believe it Gray?
And this woman had been her nurse.

It was plain, also, that money was being paid for keeping secret.

What secret?
Then a life had been ruined.

"I said I would ruin him, and I've done it!" Who?
who could her mother mean but the unhappy man she had once called husband, now a criminal in the eyes of the law, and only saved by insanity from a criminal's cell?
Putting all together, Edith's mind quickly wrought out a theory, and this soon settled into a conviction--a conviction so close to fact that all the chief elements were true.
During her mother's temporary aberration, Edith never left her room except for a few minutes at a time.

Not a word or sentence escaped her notice.