"Time will bring comfort, Iris. In the meantime, let me ask what you intend to do now? You cannot remain here."
"No; you are right there. Milly is dead; her father is in gaol on the charge of having killed her, and I am alone in the world."
"Have you any money?"
"Not one penny. The last money I got from my step-father went to pay last week's bills."
"Then you cannot remain here, as I said before."
"Where am I to go?" asked Iris helplessly.
"To Marborough--to my mother. She told me to ask you."
"How good and kind of her, Paul! I should like--but, oh!" she burst out, "how can I go to Marborough to be pointed out as the relative of a murderer?"
"Wait one moment before you call Dr. Lester by that name, Iris. Are you sure that he is the murderer of Milly?"
"I don't know. I can't say. The verdict at the inquest----"