At least, I did not deceive her.' 'What do you mean?
Colin did not deceive me.

That, at all events, is not one of his faults towards me.' 'Has he told you, then, why he keeps on his station that insolent woman and her yellow-haired blue-eyed boy ?' Bridget started visibly.

He saw that his shaft had struck the mark.

But she answered calmly: 'I don't know what you want to imply.

I thought you knew that Mrs Hensor's husband was killed on one of Colin's expeditions, and that he looked after her and her boy on that account.' 'Oh, yes, I've heard that story.