"In her own room."
"How do you know?"
"I called to her after I had dressed, and she answered me. I told her that I was going to drive over here, and she was very much surprised. I did not tell her why."
"Did you meet anybody on the way over who spoke to you or came to the side of the carriage?"
"Nobody."
"That is all I wish to ask."
In fact, Nick had no more questions. He was really at a loss for an explanation of this strange occurrence.
If the pin had been taken from the room, by a person concealed in the house, it might have been possible that that person had escaped from the grounds unseen, and had given it to Mrs. Stevens.
There was hardly time for such a trick to have been done, but in so strange a case every possibility was to be considered.
If such a thing had been done, it must have been very near to the house.