"Then, so far as you know, no one could have learned from you of those letters?"
"No one."
"Not Arthur Lawrence, for instance?"
She started, and looked as though he had presented a new idea.
"I never spoke of them," she said, slowly.
"Did he know of your engagement to Fullerton?"
"He never referred to it, but it is probable that he had heard of it. Some one would have mentioned it, probably. I did not know Mr. Lawrence at that time."
"He had no reason then to know--or to guess--the importance which you placed upon the recovery of the letters?"
She looked distressed, but her glance was as searching as his own.
"Why do you ask that? What bearing has it on this letter?"