"I thought you did not." For Ethne had asked her not to mention it on the very day when Durrance returned to England.
"Of course I knew of it," he returned, and without waiting any longer for an answer he went out on to the terrace.
Mrs.Adair dismissed for the moment the mystery of the telegram.

She was occupied by her conjecture that in the little garden by the water's edge Durrance had stood and called aloud for Ethne, while within twelve yards of him, perhaps actually within his reach, she and some one else had kept very still and had given no answer.

Her conjecture was soon proved true.

She saw Ethne and her companion come out again on to the open lawn.

Was it Feversham?
She must have an answer to that question.