"What do you say?"
"Before I answer your question, Mr. Maxwell," she observed, fixing her keen eyes on his face, "I wish to know why you put it."
"Certainly, that is only fair. Do you remember the day I met you at the Deswarth railway station?"
"Yes!"
"There was a stranger with you?"
"A stranger?"
"Pray do not evade the question," said Maxwell, in an annoyed tone; "I mean the dark gentleman whom you sent off to see about your portmanteau, and who accompanied you from town."
"How do you know he accompanied me from town?"
"I saw you both leave a first-class carriage together."
"That proves nothing. Travelling in the same carriage does not prove that he accompanied me from town."