Choleric and vindictive Blake, foolish Feversham, stupid Wentworth, and timid Richard--even Richard did not escape the unfavourable criticism they were undergoing in her subconscious mind.

Only Wilding detached in that assembly--as he had detached in another that she remembered--and stood out in sharp relief a very man, calm, intrepid, self-possessed; and if she was afraid, she was more afraid for him than for herself.

This was something that, perhaps, she scarcely realized just then; but she was to realize it soon.
Feversham was speaking again, asking Blake a fresh question.

"And who betray you to t'is rogue ?" "To Westmacott ?" cried Blake.

"He was in the plot with me.