"Eddie," she said, "it was that!"
"Ah, it was!" he said, in a tone of polite surprise.
"I had a baby."
A shudder ran through him, and he closed his eyes in mortal pain.
"You can’t ever know what I suffered! Oh, Eddie, Eddie, I’ve been punished enough for what I did! And the poor little baby——”
"Never mind!" he said, in a voice so low that she could hardly hear him. "Don’t tell me any more. I don’t want to know." He undid her fingers from his arm. "I want to get away," he said. "Good-by!"
But she stopped him again.
"And the man was Vincent!" she screamed. "Now! Now! Now you know!"
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
The next morning, just at the usual hour, Angelica entered the back parlour, where Sillon and Devery were working side by side. They both looked up in a sort of stern surprise, and waited for her to speak first.