No reply.
"Has—has Mrs. Hammerton been to see you?"
"No."
He was silent for a moment, then:
"I'll tell you now, Jacqueline; she did not wish me to marry you. Did you know it?"
"I know it."
"I believe," he said, "that she has been capable of warning you against me. Did she?"
No reply.
"And yet you married me?" he said, after a silence.
She said nothing.