“Is she married?”
“’Pon my word, I can’t say; half and half——”
“I do not understand you.”
“I will explain, later,” said Mr. Menaida. “It’s a perplexing question, and though I was brought up at the law, upon my word I can’t say how the law would stand in the matter.”
“But how about the false lights?”
“I am coming to that. When the Preventive men came on us, led by Scantlebray—and why he was with them, and what concern it was of his, I don’t know—when the guard found us, it is true Judith had the lantern, but it was under her cloak.”
“We, however, saw the light for some time.”
“Yes, but neither she nor I showed it. We had not brought a light with us. We knew that it would be wrong to do so, but we came on someone driving an ass with a lantern affixed to the head of the brute.”
“Then say so.”
“I cannot—that person was Judith’s brother.”