Alice was surprised.
‘You know about it?’
‘Just as much as Rodman, do you understand that?’
‘You don’t believe?’
She herself had doubts.
‘It’s nothing to you whether I believe it or not. Just be good enough in future to mind your own business; you’ll have plenty of it before long. I suppose that’s what you brought me here for?’
She made no answer; she was vexed and puzzled.
‘Have you anything else to say?’
Alice maintained a stubborn silence.
‘Alice, have you anything more to tell me about Adela?’