“Possibly not. But, Jimmy was just out of Sing Sing, then, after serving the best part of a four years’ sentence.”
“Oh, yes, I remember it quite well.”
“You told me then, and in subsequent conversation, that you had known Jimmy when you were children; that both of you came from good families in England; that you had gone to South Africa as governess in the family of an army officer; that a considerable time afterward Jimmy drifted to that part of the world also; that your acquaintance, and your childhood’s romance was renewed, and that you married him. Then you came to this country together, and it was not until long afterward that you discovered what his real occupation in life was. That is substantially correct, isn’t it?”
“Yes.”
“Well, Nan, I never knew any of the particulars of that old life of yours—I refer to the time when you and Jimmy were children. Will you tell me about that now?”
“Must I?”
“I think so.”
“Why?”
“Because I think that this new woman in the case—this Juno who is now his wife—also had to do with that old life.”
Nan shook her head in a decided manner.