I think he said it could be used as Exhibit A.Then he advised me to beat you only in the presence of witnesses." "The whole household must be going mad," cried Genevra with a laugh.
"Oh, if something only would happen!" exclaimed her ladyship.

"A riot, a massacre--anything! It all sounds like a farce to you, Genevra, but you haven't been here for five months, as we have." As they moved away from the vine-covered nook in the garden, a hand parted the leaves in the balcony above and a dark, saturnine face appeared behind it.

The two women would have felt extremely uncomfortable had they known that a supposedly trusted servant had followed them from the distant corridor, where he had heard every word of their conversation.

This secret espionage had been going on for days in the chateau; scarcely a move was made or a word spoken by the white people that escaped the attention of a swarthy spy.

And, curiously enough, these spies were no longer reporting their discoveries to Hollingsworth Chase.
The days passed.