"Not much good trying," said the doctor, "if she wouldn't have him."
"You believe that silly story? I don't. Did you see her face?"
Harker admitted that he had seen her face.
And then, as the carriage passed, Rowcliffe's youngest cousin did an odd thing. She tossed the slipper over the bridge into the beck.
Harker had not time to comment on her action. They were coming for him from the house.
Rowcliffe's youngest sister-in-law had fainted away on the top landing.
Everybody remembered then that it was she who had been in love with him.
XLVIII
Alice had sent for Gwenda.
Three months had gone by since her sister's wedding, and all her fears were gathered together in the fear of her father and of what was about to happen to her.