“No, Max. I do not doubt you. It is you who doubt me!”
“I do not doubt,” he repeated. “I have merely made inquiry regarding Maud, and the confession which you yourself told me she made to you. Surely, in the circumstances, of her extraordinary disappearance, together with her father, it is not strange that I should be unduly interested in her?”
“No, not at all strange,” she admitted. “I am quite as surprised and interested over Maud’s disappearance as you are.”
“Not quite so surprised.”
“Because I view the whole affair in the light of what she told me.”
“Did what she tell you in any way concern the Doctor?” he asked eagerly.
“Indirectly it did—not directly.”
“Had you any suspicion that father and daughter intended to suddenly disappear?”
“No; but, as I have before told you, I am not surprised.”
“Then they are fugitives, I take it?” he remarked, in a changed tone.