"What now? Why, all is lost unless we act promptly!"
"I said it."
"Faustina, she has missed Katie!"
"That was a matter of course."
"But she suspects her fate."
"What care we what she suspects? She can prove nothing," said Mrs.
Dugald contemptuously.
"Faustina, she can prove everything if she follows up the clew she has found. Listen. She was in the hall, near the door, when the deed was done! She heard the struggle and the cry and a part of our conversation."
"We shall all be guillotined!" cried the woman, starting to her feet and standing before him in deadly terror.
"We have no guillotining in England; but hanging is equally or even more disagreeable."
"How can you talk so when my bones are turning to gristle and my heart to jelly with the fright!" cried Mrs. Dugald.