"Mr. Twombley, when you said just now that no one knew her, did you mean that literally?"
"Nobody in the county did; I'm sure of that."
"And you, Mr. James? Is it possible that even you never saw her?"
"I have never spoken to her."
"Then so far as you know, the only person outside the castle she could communicate with was the doctor. What sort of a man is he?"
"What doctor are you speaking of?" inquired the vicar.
"Why, the doctor who had charge of her case, of course," replied Cyril impatiently.
"I never heard of her having a doctor."
"Do you mean to say that Wilmersley kept her in confinement without orders from a physician?"
"No, I suppose not. Of course not. There must have been some one," faltered the vicar a trifle abashed.