Awfully white, awfully calm, he sat like a man of stone, awaiting to hear what would cost him his life.
"Who was she ?" the lawyer repeated.
Sybilla turned toward him and answered, in a voice plainly audible the length and breadth of the, long room: "She called herself Mrs.Denover.

Mr.Parmalee called her his sister.
Both were false.

She was Captain Harold Hunsden's divorced wife, Lady Kingsland's mother, and a lost, degraded outcast!".