"What did you answer?"
She rose and approached him, looking at him with only friendliness.
"If the ring is not restored in two weeks," she said, "then I will tell you what you wish to know."
"You think that, if Mrs. Bloodgood took it, she will now have no use for it," he persisted, seizing the idea.
"I know nothing at all," she answered, emphasizing the "know." "This promise must satisfy you. I only have a suspicion, and I don't want to do an injustice to another—remember that. I have never said it was Mrs. Bloodgood I suspected. Now I want to talk to you about my own affairs."
He was covered with contrition that he should have forgotten her difficulties.
"Good heavens!" he said hastily. "What have I been thinking of? Please don't think I don't care; I've been in such a whirl—"
She checked him with a gesture and a smile, motioning him to sit down again.
"Have you had any word?"
She shook her head.