He stopped, amazed at himself. Then he looked at Lettice. If deep unaffected interest can pull confidences out of a man, here was his excuse. Why, she was all eyes and ears!
"So that was it!" she said. "That was who she was!"
"You don't mean to tell me you knew about this before?"
"No, no, not her name. But I knew she didn't much like you."
"The dickens you did! Did she say so?"
"No, I, I—I sort of gathered it."
"I begin to think what Denis said about you was true," Gardiner remarked after a pause.
"What did Denis say about me?"
"That you could see through a flight of stairs and a deal door."