"Come, come," he said a bit impatiently, "you must know what I mean. I've heard all about this Ilingsworth case. It's been a handle in the hands of a lot of people for the purpose of hounding Peter V. Wilkinson."
"Peter V. Wilkinson," she breathed, a sharp note of enmity in her tone that the Governor recognised for the thing it was.
"Ah, you know something of what I say?" he said.
"I have heard," she began.
"Then why do you come here?" he interrupted testily.
Madeline Braine leaned toward him a bit closer, persisting:
"Because I know that this man Ilingsworth isn't guilty."
"How do you know it?" he asked.
"I just know," she replied with feminine logic.