"Yes."
"Why did you say before that it was not yours?"
"I was afraid."
"And now?"
"I am going to speak the truth."
Parker looked at her again. She met his eye frankly, but there was a tenseness in her manner which showed that it had cost her something to make her mind up.
"Very well," said Parker, "we shall all be glad of that, for I think there were one or two points at the inquest on which you didn't tell the truth, weren't there?"
"Yes."
"Do believe," said Parker, "that I am sorry to have to ask these questions. The terrible position in which your brother is placed—"
"In which I helped to place him."