XXXVII.
"TWO WEEKS!"
But before she was well in, her countenance changed.
"No," said she, "I want to think first. Give me time to think. I dare not say a word without thinking."
"Truth needs no consideration. If you wish to denounce this man——"
Her look said she did.
"Then now is the time."
She gave him a sharp glance; the first she had bestowed upon him since leaving Miss Althorpe's.
"You are no doctor," she declared. "Are you a police-officer?"