"Why, my father is too weak in the head to have the will, let alone the courage, to masquerade like that.

He is like a child in leading-strings." "That's his cunning, Diana.

He's 'cute enough to pretend madness, so that he won't be hanged!" "It is impossible that Vrain can be Wrent," said Lucian decidedly.

"I agree with Miss Vrain; he is too weak and irresponsible to carry out such a deed.

Besides, I don't see how you prove him guilty of the murder; you do not even know that he could enter the Silent House by the secret way." "I don't know anything about it, except what Count Ferruci told me," said Lydia obstinately.