"As a matter of fact, I have spent scarcely any time in England since my marriage.

My husband, as I remember he told you, was fond of travelling." Notwithstanding the warm spring air he was conscious of a certain chilliness.

Her level, indifferent tone seemed to him almost abnormally callous.

A horrible realisation flashed for a moment in his brain.

She was speaking of the man whom she had killed! "Your father overheard a remark of mine," Francis told her.