“I begin to understand. After that time you did not feel like going to see her so often?”
“No.”
“Still, you occasionally called on her?”
“Yes.”
“For what reason did she refuse you?”
“That is a hard question to answer, seeing that I do not know all the lady’s thoughts.”
Taking another tack, the detective said:
“There might have been another lover in the case of whom she thought more of than yourself.”
Barnes shook his head.
“It may have been the case, although I am inclined to doubt it. I never saw a man call on her, and never heard her speak of any save one.”