Faith told her the little she knew—of their first meeting, right down to the strange marriage that morning in the registrar's dingy office, but she carefully kept to herself the things that Peg Fraser had said. They were too preposterous to mention!
She showed the letter for Mr. Shawyer, the lawyer, and Mrs. Ledley's face cleared a little as she took it and read the few lines.
"We will go and see him," she said. "On Monday we will go and see him, Faith, you and I."
Faith looked up eagerly.
"And you will believe in him then, won't you?" she asked. "If Mr. Shawyer tells you that it is all right you will believe in him, won't you?"
Mrs. Ledley took the girl's eager face in her hands.
"Do you love him—very much?" she asked rather sadly.
Faith echoed the words vaguely.
"Love him? Who do you mean?..."