"You said so yourself." "If I had I've forgotten what it was," said Thalassa with a black look.
"You cannot have forgotten!" cried Charles.

"What was it ?" Hope sprang up in his heart again like a warm flame as he detected something confused and irresolute in the other's attitude.

"Thalassa, you are keeping something back.

You know, or you guess, who the murderer is!" "I'm keeping nothing back." "You are.

I can see it in your face.