"Why, we simply came in here together and found—him. That's all."
"Yes, that's all, but it is enough."
"Was there very much money involved?" Bodney asked, not knowing what else to say.
"Money! I haven't once thought of the amount. It is the fact that I have been shot with an arrow taken from my own quiver, and poisoned. And yet, when I look at him, as I did today at dinner, I can hardly bring myself to believe my own eyes."
"You haven't—haven't said anything to him, have you?"
"In the way of accusation? No. It would leap from him to his mother. And I charge you to breathe it to no one."
"Not even my sister, who is to be his wife?"
"No. I will take her case in hand."
"But will you permit them to marry?"
"Not in a house of God; not in the presence of a guest. If she is determined to marry him against my protest, it must be in secret, as his deed was."