What! you don't think so ?" he impetuously asked, moved, perhaps, by my suggestive silence.

"You are suspicious of these two poor old women?
What reason have you for that, Miss Saunders?
What motive could they have for depreciating the value of what was once their own property ?" So he knew nothing of the lost bonds! Mrs.Packard had made no mistake when she assured me of the secrecy with which they had endured their misfortune.

It gave me great relief; I could work more safely with this secret unshared.

But the situation called for dissimulation.

It was with anything but real openness that I declared: "You can not calculate the impulses of an affected mind.