The woman laughed. She said, returning to a subject previously touched upon:
“Well, what about Field?”
“I can’t make it out.”
“You were up there to-day?”
“Yes.”
“And learned nothing?”
“Just precisely that. Appearances are that he was taken to the river bank and away in a boat.”
“Who could have done it?”
“I don’t know. I can’t even guess.”
“Nor what the reason was?”