"I say he is a scamp," said Mrs.Mountjoy.
"During all these inquiries that have been made after your cousin he has known all about it." "He has not known all about it," said Florence.
"You contradict me in a very impertinent manner, and cannot be acquainted with the circumstances.

The last person who saw your cousin in London was Mr.Henry Annesley, and yet he has not said a word about it, while search was being made on all sides.

And he saw him under circumstances most suspicious in their nature; so suspicious as to have made the police arrest him if they were aware of them.

He had at that moment grossly insulted Captain Scarborough." "No, mamma; no, it was not so." "How do you know?
how can you tell ?" "I do know; and I can tell.

The ill-usage had come from the other side." "Then you, too, have known the secret, and have said nothing about it?
You, too, have been aware of the violence which took place at that midnight meeting?
You have been aware of what befell your cousin, the man to whom you were all but engaged.