197/249 It turned me cold and giddy, notwithstanding. As for Mr.Deluc, I thought _he_ would have had a fainting fit next." Hearing this, I inquired if Mrs.Zebedee had said or done any strange things since she had been Mrs.Crosscapel's lodger. "And anybody would be of your mind, when a woman accuses herself of murdering her husband in her sleep. All I can say is that, up to this morning, a more quiet, sensible, well-behaved little person than Mrs.Zebedee I never met with. I should have called them a pattern couple, in their own line of life." There was no more to be said on the landing. |