Let everything remain in the trunk where he can see them.' Mechanically Mrs.Tracy, who was present, put the different articles into the trunk, leaving the Bible on the top, and then followed her husband from the room.

She knew there was more affecting him than the fact that a dead woman was in the house, or that he had not sent John to the station.

But what it was she could not guess, unless, and she, too, felt faint and giddy for a moment, as a new idea entered her mind.
'Frank,' she said to him when they were alone for a few moments, 'Arthur had a fancy that Gretchen was coming last night.

You do not think this woman is she ?' 'Gretchen?
No.

Don't be a fool, Dolly.