When Mr. Carden-Cox put the direct question, "Did you have Nigel's postscript?" a curious hardness came over her, the hardness of desperation. She looked straight at Mr. Carden-Cox, neither blushing nor trembling, and replied—
"No."
"Not any postscript?"
"No."
"Quite sure?"
"Yes."
"It couldn't have remained in the envelope unknown to you."
Fulvia was tempted to catch at the suggestion, but Daisy spoke promptly—
"Oh no; it wasn't there, I'm sure. I found the envelope on the floor, when Fulvie was in bed; and I looked to see that it was empty."
Fulvia kept silence.