She lay silent for a little while.

Then she said, with a detachment perhaps slightly too marked: "We left Trouville in a hurry yesterday, didn't we ?" "Yes," replied Sylvia, "I suppose we did," and she spoke as though this was the first time that she had given the matter a thought.
"Trouville was altogether too hot," said Mrs.Thesiger; and again silence followed.

But Mrs.Thesiger was not content.

"How much does she know ?" she speculated again, and was driven on to find an answer.

She raised herself upon her elbow, and while rearranging her pillow said carelessly: "Sylvia, our last morning at Trouville you were reading a book which seemed to interest you very much." "Yes." Sylvia volunteered no information about that book.
"You brought it down to the sands.