"I tried to convince your father's lawyer of your innocence, and I might have told him the truth if he had been sympathetic.

I don't know, though," he added anxiously.

"I had to consider your position all along.

If my story was disbelieved it only made it worse for you.

If it was not Thalassa, who could it have been?
Have you any idea--the faintest suspicion ?" Again she shook her head.