She repeated it with amplifications.
"So you said last night," I remarked.
"But I hadn't seen her then."
"Aren't you going to the country?" I asked, hoping to create a diversion.
"Yes, at two o'clock. But I had to see you first."
"To tell me what you thought of me?"
"To beg you to do something."
"What is there to do?"
"You have made a hideous mistake! Ruined both their lives!"
I may have had my own doubts, but it wouldn't have been human to confess them in the face of an attack like this. "Easy, there!" I said sulkily. "Have you discovered any new evidence?"