"Yes."
"You did not see your husband?"
"No."
"He is in danger; tell me all about it!"
Greatly frightened, Mary Dodge continues:
"They urged me to go anyhow, as it would not take long. I positively refused to leave my sick girl at that time of night. Pierre Lanier frowned and Paul looked awfully fierce. They scared me so! It then seemed to me that they would kill us both."
"Why?"
"Pierre owes my husband several hundred pounds, and I know about it."
"Were the Laniers and Mr. Dodge to come back with you to this place?"
"Pierre said for me to go with them to a house; they would leave and soon return with my husband, and we could talk it all over."