“Yes. I was frightened. A man got into my sitting-room.”
Neither of her hearers made any but the faintest attempt to affect astonishment.
“It must have alarmed you horribly,” said Mrs. Brander with blanched lips. “Did you call any one?”
“No.”
Over the face of the vicar’s wife came an expression of great relief.
“Have you told any one?”
“This is the first time I have mentioned it.”
There was a pause.
“Have you any idea—who—the man—was?”
“I recognized him at once, before he got in at the window. He spoke to me, but he did not know who I was. He was asleep.”