“Send her in,” said Anthony, and stood waiting Lily noticed his face twitching; it occurred to her then that this strange old man might still love his daughter, after all the years, and all his cruelty.
It was the elderly servant from the Doyle house who came in, a tall gaunt woman, looking oddly unfamiliar to Lily in a hat.
“Why, Jennie!” she said. And then: “Is anything wrong?”
“There is and there isn't,” Jennie said, somberly. “I just wanted to tell you, and I don't care if he kills me for it. It was him that threw her downstairs. I heard him hit her.”
Old Anthony stiffened.
“He threw Aunt Elinor downstairs?”
“That's how she broke her leg.”
Sheer amazement made Lily inarticulate.
“But they said—we didn't know—do you mean that she has been there all this time, hurt?”
“I mean just that,” said Jennie, stolidly. “I helped set it, with him pretending to be all worked up, for the doctor to see. He got rid of me all right. He's got one of his spies there now, a Bolshevik like himself. You can ask the neighbors.”