“No.”
“Are you sure?”
“Quite. Your servant came to see me, as your wife’s old friend and relative; and, saving the housemaid who admitted her, I alone saw her.”
“Have you any objection to tell me the object of her visit?”
Ada was silent.
“Did she come at the wish of Lady Gernon?”
“No,” said Ada, for she hardly knew what to reply.
“Then you will tell me why she came?”
Ada was still silent.
“Then I will tell you,” said Sir Murray, in a calm voice. “She came to tell you of some absurd suspicions that she had nursed—to try and convince you that Lady Gernon’s life was in danger; for, like the rest of us, she had been blinded by the treason of a false woman. I see that the news has not yet reached your ears. Mrs Norton, your cousin has fled!”