She had never dreamed he would feel it like this. She had thought that he would see at once he had had a great escape.
He did not appear to hear her. He looked vacantly at her, and then recollected himself, and sat down by her.
"You saw her last," he said, biting his lips.
Mary's heart turned sick within her.
"The Lestranges saw her last," she said hastily. He made an impatient movement. He knew all that.
"You were with her all the afternoon on the boat?"
"Yes. But, of course, there were numbers of others. I had many friends whom I had to——"
"Did you notice anything? Did you have any talk with her? Was she different to usual?"
"She does not generally talk much. She was rather silent."
"You did not think she looked as if she had anything on her mind."