"Call me a liar, and have done with it.

I've come here at considerable dislocation of myself and my principles, to bury the hatchet for the sake of unity against the enemy, and this is how I'm treated.

I can only go back to Scotland at once." Sir Anthony succeeded in pacifying her.

The letters were evidence that Edith and himself believed that Althea was in Galloway at the time.
Maria's denial had come upon them like a thunderclap, bewildering, stunning.

If Althea was not in Galloway, where was she?
Maria Beccles did not reply for some time to the question.