"There is an impostor a guest in their house."
"My dear girl, you assume he is an impostor for personal gain—I, that he is an impostor for purposes of State. I would receive him as a guest at Rose Hill."
"You are warned—we were not."
"Whom his Excellency sponsors, a citizen may entertain without discredit."
"I reckon you are right," she agreed, after a moment's thought. "The Governor vouches for him, and that is sufficient. But, all the same, it gives me a queer sort of feeling to be in the same house with—Sir Edward."
"You see, it would have been much better not to tell you—but you are so persistent!" and he laughed.
They had come out into the open moonlight, on the river bank. She looked at him with an odd smile.
"Yes, I am," she replied. "But it has not had much success, thus far."
And though Maynadier besought her earnestly, she would not explain.