‘Your accuser, as you say, happened not only to see you, but to hear you talking.’
He waited for her surrender before this evidence. Instead of that Adela smiled.
‘If my words were reported to you, what fault have you to find with me?’
Her confidence, together with his actual ignorance of what Rodman had heard, troubled him with doubt.
‘Answer this question,’ he said. ‘Did you make an appointment with that man?’
‘I did not.’
‘You did not? Yet you met him?’
‘Unexpectedly.’
‘But you talked with him?’
‘How can you ask? You know that I did.’