But I had no idea they would stay so late.

Are you sure it was their voices you heard and not the servants moving ?" He asked the question almost carelessly, but his eyes rather belied his tone, for they watched her intently.
"Quite sure," she answered.
"You might have made a mistake." "No; for I saw them." Garratt Skinner covered his mouth with his hand.

It seemed to Sylvia that he smiled.

A suspicion flashed across her mind, in spite of herself.

Was he merely testing her to see whether she would speak the truth or not?
Did he know that she had come down the stairs in the early morning?
She thrust the suspicion aside, remembering the self-reproach which suspicion had already caused her at this very luncheon table.