"Is it true?" he said, raising the slender, lifeless body.
"Yes."
"Dead?"
"Yes."
"When did it happen?"
"At two o'clock."
"She wishes to go to him," he said warningly. "The carriage is below. She has her trunks. She was to have met him at the station. What shall I do?"
"She must be gotten back to her house as soon as possible," said Mrs. Kildair with energy. "The trunks must return at once. Everything hangs on a hair; I know Bloodgood." She cast a glance at the still inanimate body and added: "Wait. Spirits of ammonia will be better. I'll get it."
Mrs. Bloodgood returned to consciousness slowly, looking from one to the other with a dazed, pleading look.
"Then it is so," she said at last.