“Now, Miss Cartwright,” he remarked, “I’d like to ask why it was you made this admission about Marie Garnier.”
“Because I do not want to see an innocent man go to prison,” she returned promptly.
“Oh, I see. And did your sister know it, too?”
“No,” she answered quickly.
“Why hadn’t you told her?” he demanded.
“Really,” said the elder Miss Cartwright with an expression of innocence, “I didn’t think it made any difference.”
Taylor was obviously annoyed at such a view. “Your behavior is most extraordinary,” he commented.
“You see, I know so little about law, and insurance and things like that,” she said apologetically. She did not desire to offend him.
“You ought at least to have known that you owed it to the company to give them all the information in your possession,” he grumbled.
“I never thought of it in that way,” she said meditating.