Rosamund saw her name written in a French hand on the back of the card.
“You stay with us, Nevil?”
“To-night and to-morrow, perhaps. The danger seems to be over.”
“Has Dr. Shrapnel been in danger?”
“He has. If it’s quite over now!”
“I declare to you, Nevil...”
“Listen to me, ma’am; I’m in the dark about this murderous business:—an old man, defenceless, harmless as a child!—but I know this, that you are somewhere in it.”
“Nevil, do you not guess at some one else?”
“He! yes, he! But Cecil Baskelett led no blind man to Dr. Shrapnel’s gate.”
“Nevil, as I live, I knew nothing of it!”