“And you impersonated Miss Carr?”

“I did, for she has gone off with a party for a drive to the settlement, and you know that she got permission from Colonel Dunwoody to see you, as your sister asked it.”

“You speak as though you did not believe it was my sister?”

“Yes, she said so.”

“And you doubt her?”

“Oh, no.”

“What then?”

“I would believe anything she told me, for I never saw a truer, lovelier face, so unlike your own.”

“Mine is stamped indelibly with crime.”

“I am glad that you admit as much. But I went to see your sister.”