‘Of course I have. It is for your good. I was going to tell you one just now, only you don’t seem to care to bear it.’
‘Yes, yes, I do!’ Alice exclaimed, recollecting. ‘Is it something about Adela?’
He nodded.
‘Wouldn’t it delight you to go and get her into a terrible row with Dick?’
‘Oh, do tell me! What’s she been doing?’
‘I can’t quite promise you the fun,’ he replied, laughing. ‘It may miss fire. What do you think of her meeting Eldon alone in the wood that Monday afternoon, the day after she found the will, you know?’
‘You mean that?’
‘I saw them together.’
‘But she—you don’t mean she—?’
Even Alice, with all her venom against her brother’s wife, had a difficulty in attributing this kind of evil to Adela. In spite of herself she was incredulous.