"Did Dr. Wellesley admit you himself?"
"Yes, he did, and he took me straight up to his drawing-room by a side staircase."
"No one saw you going in?"
"No; nor leaving, either!"
"Why all this privacy, Mrs. Mallett?"
"My business was of a private sort, sir!"
"Will you tell us what it was?"
"I will tell you that I had reasons of my own—my particular own—for seeing Dr. Wellesley and the Mayor."
"The Mayor! Did you see the Mayor—there?"
"No. I meant to see him, but I didn't."