"But it's no wonder—if you sat down to that for six weeks—it's no wonder you got scared. It's inconceivable to me how that woman could have let you in for him. She knew what he was."
"She didn't know what I was doing till it was done."
"She'd no business to let you go on with it when she did know."
"Ah! but she knew—then—that it was all right."
"All right?"
"Absolutely right. Rodney——" She called to him as if she would compel him to see it as it was. "I did no more for him than I did for you and Bella."
He started. "Bella?" he repeated.
He stared at her. He had seen something.
"You wondered how she got all right, didn't you?"
He said nothing.