"Who told you I was here?
Who wrote to you ?" he asked darkly.

The light had died away from his face.

It was ascetic in its lonely gravity now.
"Your doctor cabled to Castlegarry and Miss Tynan wrote to me." A faint flush spread over Crozier's face.

"How did Miss Tynan know where to write ?" Mona had told the truth at once because she felt it was the only way.
Now, however, she was in a position where she must either tell him that Kitty had opened that still sealed letter from herself to him which he had carried all these years, or else tell him an untruth.

She had no right to tell him what Kitty had confided to her.