"In your presence?"
"No." Then she described the little scene graphically.
"But Ledyard——" Then he paused. Ledyard's confidence must be sacred to him.
"And Huntter—Huntter knows that you know; does he know that you are Margaret's friend?"
"Yes."
"And—he trusts you?"
"He thinks I do not count, but I do—with Margaret."
"Priscilla, this is no work for you, poor child!"
"It is—hers—and mine, and God's!" determinedly.
"Darling, you are overwrought. You must trust me. You know what I think of such things; you can safely leave this to me. Ledyard is Huntter's physician. Why he called Hapgood in, I do not know. I will go to Ledyard. Can you not see—that they would not believe—you?"