"Yes. What does Lord Radclyffe say?"
"He laughs the whole thing to scorn, and declares that the man is an impudent liar."
"He saw," she asked, "the first letter? The one that came from St. Vincent?"
"Yes. Mr. Warren and I did not think we ought to keep it from him."
"Of course not," she assented. "Then he said that the letter was a tissue of lies?"
"From beginning to end."
"He refused," she insisted, "to believe in the marriage of your uncle Arthur out there in Martinique?"
"He didn't go into details. He just said that the whole letter was an impudent attempt at blackmail."
"And since then?"