"I can't tell you. Do you know this woman?"
"I don't even know her name. Who is she?"
"Her real name is Senora Gredos and she claims to be a Spanish Jewess. She keeps a kind of gambling salon. To be plain with you, Miss Saxon, I really did not see the photograph in her house. But a girl called Susan Grant—"
"I know. My late aunt's parlor-maid."
"Well, the photograph was in her box. I found it when the servants insisted on their boxes being searched. She confessed that she had taken it from her last mistress, who was Senora Gredos. As you gave it to Miss Loach, I should be glad to know how it came into the possession of this woman."
"I really can't tell you, no more than I can say why Susan took it. What was her reason?"
"Mr. Mallow is a handsome man—" began Jennings, when she stopped him with a gesture.
"Do you mean to say—no, I'll never believe it."
"I was not going to say anything against Mallow's character. But this foolish girl cherished a foolish infatuation for Mallow. She saw him at Senora Gredos' house—"
"Ah!" said Juliet, turning pale. "I remember now. Basil mentioned that Cuthbert gambled, but he did not say where."