6/9 "I mean, she must have had some further reason." "Oh, but she had! I forgot to tell you in my anxiety to know what you thought. She came to me straight from Normanthorpe, where they had insulted her as she had never been insulted in her life before!" "Who? Mrs.Venables had no name bad enough for him, but she brought it on herself, and I think more of him than I ever did before. You know that Mrs.Vinson, the Invernesses' new agent's wife ?" "I do. Langholm took her into dinner the night we dined at Upthorpe, and she was in the offing yesterday when Mrs.Steel was talking to the judge." "Exactly! It appears that it was Mrs.Vinson who first suspected something, the very night you mention; and yesterday her suspicions were confirmed to her own satisfaction. |