“Has he said anything more?”
He stood before her trembling all over.
“What is the matter?”
He burst into an uncontrollable cry. “It 's that hellish woman again! He saw her spying on him outside his office, he saw her in a railway carriage on the train he took. Because she disappeared each time, he thinks it was an hallucination; and somehow he was aware of her presence just before the piece of rock came down.”
Unity's face beneath the skimpy hair and rubbishy tam-o'-shanter was white and strained.
“She threw it. I knew she threw it.”
“So do I. He saw her. She disappeared as she did that night in the fog. A woman like that is n't human. She has the power of disappearing at will. You can't measure her cunning.”
“What did he go down for?”
He told her. Unity's lips twitched.
“And he sat there in the rain just looking at her window?”