15/17 I was not aware at the time that the woman who saw me was Rhoda. Afterwards I went to Hampstead with Mrs. That girl in Baxter & Co.'s told a lie for me. I was warned by Mrs.Vrain that you had made questions about the cloak, so I went to the girl and told her you were a jealous husband, and paid her to say it was not I who bought the cloak. She did so, quite ignorant of the real reason I wished her to deny knowing me." "Why did you buy the cloak ?" asked Lucian, satisfied with this explanation. |