How could I know that unless I'd seen her ?" "What else ?" said Thalassa, facing him with a strange and doubtful glance.
"You let her in," Charles rapidly continued, "and you waited downstairs for her.

Afterwards you took her back across the moors to catch the wagonette.

It was on the way, near the cross-roads, that Sisily made you promise not to tell anybody that she'd been there that night." "Suppose it's true--what then ?" Thalassa's voice was edged with the craftiest caution.

"She's sent you to me to ask for the truth, say you.
'Twould have been safer not.

What else is there to say, when she's told you everything ?" He cast a look of savage jealousy at the young man.
"Much." Charles spoke rapidly, but his glance was despairing.