His intelligence bade him deny what his temperament inclined him to accept.

Besides, on the present occasion, no theory which he could form could account for the woman's knowledge of his life.

She had never seen him.

He had no extraordinary peculiarity by which she might have recognized him at first sight from hearsay, nor was he in any way connected with public affairs.

He had come quite unexpectedly and had not given his name, and the spirit, or whatever it might be, had instantly told him of Veronica, of her danger, of his brother and sister-in-law and of the will.