"Was that at Lord Ellerdine's place in Yorkshire?"
"Yes."
"When were you last there?"
"About a year ago," Peggy replied.
"Indeed! About a year ago——"
"Hardly a year."
"At anyrate, several months before the Paris trip Mr. Collingwood was sitting up in your room into the small hours of the morning making passionate love to you?"
Mrs. Admaston said nothing at all.
"Is not that so?" the insistent voice inquired.
"There was no harm, Sir Robert," was the hesitating answer.