“You don’t know me? You don’t recognise me? Look at me well, child?”
She stared full into his face, blankly at first, and then with dawning astonishment. “But — but — oh no, you could not be!”
“Could not be what?”
“Another brother — another brother of Kate Merriot’s,” she ventured. “You — it is the eyes — and the nose — and — ”
“I am not her brother,” Robin said. “Try again, Letty. You come near the truth.”
She fell back a pace. “You are not — oh, you cannot be — no, no, how could you be?”
“I am Kate Merriot,” Robin said, and waited, his eyes on her face.
Letty was as pale now as she had been rosy. “You — you? A woman? You acted — But it can’t be! Kate was a woman!”
He shook his head; he was no longer smiling.
“Oh!” cried Letty. “Oh, the things I must have said — ” She broke off in distress.