"None at all," he answered. "But I mean to show you that this girl didn't walk back to any dead easy job when she undertook Tom."
"Why did she do it?"
"Why? From humanity, justice, honor, I suppose, the things that influence women when they stick to their bad bargains."
"Where had she been meantime?"
"With her father, in lodgings. That was where I met her."
"Was she known by my brother's name?"
"No," he hesitated, "not then. I knew her as Miss MacLeod."
"Ah!"
"I can see why," Peter declared, with an eager emphasis. "I never thought of it before, but can't you see? I should think a woman could, at least. The whole situation was probably so distasteful to her that she threw off even his name."
"And assumed it after his death!"