CHAPTER IX. THE ADVERTISEMENT.
I WAITED in silence for the disclosure that was now to come. Naomi began by asking me a question.
“You remember when we went to see Ambrose in the prison?” she said.
“Perfectly.”
“Ambrose told us of something which his villain of a brother said of John Jago and me. Do you remember what it was?”
I remembered perfectly. Silas had said, “John Jago is too sweet on Naomi not to come back.”
“That’s so,” Naomi remarked when I had repeated the words. “I couldn’t help starting when I heard what Silas had said; and I thought you noticed me.”
“I did notice you.”
“Did you wonder what it meant?”
“Yes.”