He waited to hear more--without moving, and with the pen suspended in his hand.) Blanche proceeded, absently winding her fingers in and out of Arnold's hair as he sat at her feet: "It flashed on me instantly that Sir Patrick had discovered the truth.

Of course I told him so.

He laughed, and said I mustn't jump at conclusions We were guessing quite in the dark; and all the distressing things I had noticed at the inn might admit of some totally different explanation.

He would have gone on splitting straws in that provoking way the whole morning if I hadn't stopped him.

I was strictly logical.
I said _I_ had seen Anne, and _he_ hadn't--and that made all the difference.