"The case!" he cried. "Yes, sordid as you like; but I don't mean the case at all."
"Then what do you mean, Mr. Langholm?"
"Her after life," he whispered; "the psychology of that woman, and her subsequent adventures! She disappeared into thin air immediately after the trial. I suppose you knew that?"
"I did hear it."
Rachel moistened her lips with champagne.
"Well, I should take her from that moment," said Langholm. "I should start her story there."
"And should you make her guilty or not guilty?"
"Ah!" said Langholm, as though that would require consideration; unluckily, he paused to consider on the spot.
"Who are you talking about?" inquired Mr. Venables, who had caught Rachel's last words.
"Mrs. Minchin," she told him steadily.