To my relief he said no more on the subject just then, seeming to accept my words in simple faith.

There was evidently in his own mind some cause for the acceptance deeper than my own knowledge.
His eyes flashed, and there was an unconscious movement of the mouth--it could hardly be called a twitch--which betokened satisfaction.

He was following out some train of reasoning in his own mind.

Suddenly he said: "She thought I had been murdered! Was that last night ?" "No! four days ago." He seemed surprised.

Whilst he had been speaking the first time he had sat up in bed; now he made a movement as though he would jump out.