"There's one less.

But my mother will be up soon, will she not ?" "Not yet," replied Maggie.

"Edward, dear, do try and tell me what you have done.

Why should the police be after you ?" "Why, Maggie," said he with a kind of forced, unnatural laugh, "they say I've forged." "And have you ?" asked Maggie, in a still, low tone of quiet agony.
He did not answer for some time, but sat, looking on the floor with unwinking eyes.

At last he said, as if speaking to himself: "If I have, it's no more than others have done before, and never been found out.