There was a certain unworthy satisfaction in her keeping something from him.

But again she underrated his uncanny powers of observation, and yet again he turned the tables upon her by a sudden display of the very knowledge which she was painfully keeping to herself.
"Of course you recognized the judge ?" said Steel, following his wife for once into her own apartments, where he immediately shut a door behind him and another in front of Rachel, who stood at bay before the glitter in his eyes.
"Of course," she admitted, with irritating nonchalance.
"And he you ?" "I thought he did at first; afterwards I was not so sure." "But I am!" exclaimed Steel through his teeth.
Rachel's face was a mixture of surprise and incredulity.
"How can you know ?" she asked coldly.

"You were at least a hundred yards away at the time, for I saw you with Morna Woodgate." "And do you think my sight is not good for a hundred yards," retorted Steel, "when you are at the end of them?
I saw the whole thing--his confusion and yours--but then I did not know who he was.

He must have been in the house when we arrived; otherwise I should have taken good care that you never met.

I saw enough, however, to bring me up in time to see and hear more.