You came here about Ralph Kenzie, did you not, and my mother told you that he is not the man whom you seek, did she not ?" The lawyer nodded.
"Well, I tell you that all this tale is false, for he is the very man," and she poured out the true story of Ralph and of the plot that had been made to deceive them about him.
Now, as I have said, Suzanne's English was none of the best and it is possible that the lawyer did not understand.

For my part, however, I think that he understood well enough, for she told me afterwards that is face grew grey and anxious as he listened, and that at length he said: "All this you tell me is very strange and weighty, so much so that I must bring my friend back to look more closely into the matter.

Return now to the farm and say nothing of having met me, for by this evening, or to-morrow at the latest, we will come there again and sift out the truth of this question." To this she agreed, being guileless, and the lawyer rode away after the other.

All that day and all the next Suzanne scarcely spoke to me, but I saw that she was expecting something to happen, and that she glanced continually towards the path by which the Englishmen had journeyed, thinking to see them riding back to the farm.

But they rode back no more, and I am sure that the cunning lawyer never breathed one word of his meeting with Suzanne and of what took place at it to the young lord.
That book was shut and it did not please him to reopen it, since to do so might have cost him ten thousand pounds.