“Immediately.”
“Leaving your two sisters alone in this cold and out-of-the-way house?”
“I did not think they were alone.”
“Who did you think was with them?”
“I have already mentioned the name.”
“Yet you left them?”
“Yes, I’ve already explained that. I was engaged in a mean act. I was ashamed to be caught at it by Adelaide. I preferred flight. I had no premonition of tragedy—any such tragedy as afterwards occurred. I understood neither of my sisters and my thoughts were only for myself.”
“Didn’t you so much as try to account for their both being there?”
“Not then.”
“Had you expected Adelaide to accompany your younger sister when you harnessed the horse for her?”