He looked at her for the first time with dislike. He did not suspect her as the source of abominable suggestion. He was only thinking that if it hadn't been for her he wouldn't have seen any of these things.
She shrank before his look. "Does he think I wanted him to see it?" she said to herself.
Already she was clean in her own eyes. Already she had persuaded herself that she had not wanted that. And in the same breath of thought she asked herself, "What did he see?"
She smiled as she answered his cold answer.
"I thought it was rubbed out, but I couldn't be quite sure."
They were so absorbed that they did not hear the door open.
Jane stood in the doorway quietly regarding them.
