Can you explain what my niece has got to do with it ?" "I! Blanche herself is completely mystified.

How should _I_ know ?" Answering in those terms, he spoke with perfect sincerity.

Anne's vague distrust of the position in which they had innocently placed themselves at the inn had produced no corresponding effect on Arnold at the time.
He had not regarded it; he had not even understood it.

As a necessary result, not the faintest suspicion of the motive under which Anne was acting existed in his mind now.
Sir Patrick put the letter into his pocket-book, and abandoned all further attempt at interpreting the meaning of it in despair.
"Enough, and more than enough, of groping in the dark," he said.

"One point is clear to me after what has happened up stairs this morning.