"You advised me to break off the engagement and I did so."
"What was the result?"
"The girl was relieved."
"Relieved?"
"Yes, because she, too, had in the meantime fallen in love with somebody else—my friend Gell."
"How fortunate!"
"It seemed so at first. I thought Providence had stepped in to help her out. But Fate has kept a terrible reckoning, Sir."
"What has happened?"
"The girl has committed a crime. She is in Castle Rushen awaiting her trial for the murder of her new-born child."
"The woman Collister?"