"I think she was," said Train, decisively, "and if I were you I would ask Miss Ward why she gave you the yellow holly."
"What would be the sense in that?"
"You might learn why Mrs. Jersey was startled."
Brendon laughed and shrugged his shoulders. "Your active brain is building up a perfect romance," he declared. "There can be no connection between Dorothy and Mrs. Jersey."
"Did she know you were coming to stop here on that night?"
"Yes. I told her so when I met her in the Park in the morning. It was then that she asked me to afternoon tea."
"And at the afternoon tea she gave you the holly?"
"Yes. You seem to think she did it on purpose that Mrs. Jersey----"
Train interrupted him quickly. "It is you who are building up a romance now," he said. "I never thought anything of the sort. But I do say that the coincidence is strange."
"What coincidence?"