The girl's face changed color at the sudden question.
"I don't see----" she began.
"You may not see," said The Thinking Machine, "but I can have him arrested for robbery and convict him."
The girl gazed at him with wide, terror-stricken eyes, and gasped.
"No, no, no," she said, hurriedly. "He could have had nothing to do with that at all."
"Is he in love with you?" again came the question.
There was a pause.
"I've had reason to believe so," she said, finally, "though----"
"And you?"
The girl's face was flaming now, and, squinting into her eyes, the scientist read the answer.