My questions
evidently offended her; they were received in sulky silence.
Under these circumstances, well knowing that I can trust
implicitly to your humane sympathy for misfortune, I have decided
(after careful reflection) to insure the poor creature's safety
when she arrives in London by giving her a letter to you. You
will hear what she says, and you will be better able to discover
than I am whether she really has any claim on Lady Janet Roy. One
last word of information, which it may be necessary to add, and I
shall close this inordinately long letter. At my first interview
with her I abstained, as I have already told you, from irritating
her by any inquiries on the subject of her name. On this second
occasion, however, I decided on putting the question.'"
As he read those last words, Julian became aware of a sudden
movement on the part of his aunt. Lady Janet had risen softly
from her chair and had passed behind him with the purpose of
reading the consul's letter for herself over her nephew's
shoulder. Julian detected the action just in time to frustrate
Lady Janet's intention by placing his hand over the last two
lines of the letter.
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