"I want to know who told you about this."
"Bridgewater, for one," replied Miss Hancock.
"Bridgewater!"
"Yes, Bridgewater."
"But he knows nothing about it," cried Leavesley. "He couldn't have told you."
"He told me everything—Miss Lambert's visit to the Zoological Gardens, her——"
"You may as well be exact whilst you are about it; it wasn't the Zoological Gardens, it was Epping Forest."
"Frank Leavesley, a lie is bad enough, but a silly lie is much worse. Miss Lambert herself told me it was the Zoological Gardens; perhaps she has been to Epping Forest as well; perhaps next it will be a visit to Paris. I wash my hands of the affair."
"You have seen Miss Lambert?"
"No matter what I have seen. I have seen enough to make me open my eyes—and shut them again."