“She never took me into her confidence about anything at all—no, sir.”
“You never saw her after her marriage?”
“Oh, yes, I did see her. I went there two or three times for tea.”
“Everything was pleasant?”
“She was very polite and pleasant—yes, sir.”
“But there was no tendency to confide in you?”
“I didn’t ask her to confide in me,” said Miss Biggs. “I didn’t ask her for anything at all—not anything.”
“But if there had been anything to confide, it would have been quite natural to confide in you—girls generally confide in their best friend, don’t they?”
“I guess so.”
“And as far as you know, there were no guilty relations between Mrs. Bellamy and Mr. Ives at the time of her death?”