"Ah, guardy, I would give a great deal to know that."
"Whom do you suspect?"
"I suspect no one now."
There was a shade of sadness in her tone, and her eyes wandered wistfully over to the young artist.
"Upon my soul!" exclaimed Mr. Walraven, "I never heard or read of the like. It's perfectly astounding. Did you ever hear anything so extraordinary, Sir Roger?"
The baronet had been sitting like a man stunned by a blow. Now he turned his eyes from Mollie's for the first time, and tried to speak.
"I am utterly bewildered," he said. "The whole story sounds like an impossibility—incredible as a fairy tale."
"It is quite true, nevertheless," said Mollie.
"And you are a wedded wife?"
"I am."