Betty handed the letter to Edgeway in astonishment.
"Is that not a strange note? What could have happened?"
Edgeway read, and re-read thoughtfully. Then he handed it back saying,
"Something unusual, surely. Maybe Dr. Cadman has had their marriage annulled, and your friend is reunited with her first husband. That Dr. Cadman has brains enough to engineer a case like that successfully."
"You think it possible?" she asked in an awed voice.
He took her hands and pressed them hard.
"Does it concern you, if he did?" he asked quickly, his eyes compelling hers with sudden fear.
"I'm not sure that it would be best," she answered evasively, and he read in her eyes a shrinking from his scrutiny of her.
Turning the conversation, he talked of their future life together, but the light had died from his eyes, and Betty noticed the effort of all his remarks.
That night and the next day, she never ceased to think of Alma's note, and Frank's surmise.