“That, then, is the common explanation?”
“Everyone is talking about it. Everyone says that. And now, what will you do?”
“Thank you. Jamie and I are at Othello Cottage, where we are comfortable. My aunt had furnished it intending to reside in it herself. As for our food, we receive that from the Glaze.”
“But this cannot continue.”
“It must continue for a while.”
“And then?”
“The future is not open to my eyes.”
“Judith, that has taken place at length which I have been long expecting.”
“What do you mean?”
“This miserable condition of affairs has reached its climax, and there has been a turn.”