Basil.
Oh, I'd give everything not to have said what I did. I'd always held myself in before, but yesterday—I couldn't.
John.
Well?
Basil.
I didn't get back here till nearly ten, and the maid told me Jenny had just gone out. I thought she'd gone back to her mother's.
John.
Yes?
Basil.
And soon after a constable came up and asked me to go down to the river. He said there'd been an accident.... She was dead. A man had seen her walk along the tow-path and throw herself in.