I was a very little girl at the time, and I can just remember it," she added dreamily.
She was apparently unconscious of the significance of these revelations, but they made a deep impression upon Charles.

There was something expectant and cruel in his face as he listened--the aroused instinct of the hunter.

He addressed her-- "This bears out what I have believed all along.

Thalassa knows about the murder.

He is mixed up in it in some way." "Oh, why do you think that ?" she exclaimed, clasping her hand in distress.
"Why ?" he echoed.