Her face took on a look of quiet hardness.
"Why did you not come to the wedding?
She was your cousin.

People asked where you were.

You knew I was going." "Did you need me ?" he asked quietly, and his eyes involuntarily swept to the place where he had seen the heliotrope and scarlet make a glow of colour on the other side of the square.

"You were not alone." She misunderstood him.

Her mind had been overwrought, and she caught insinuation in his voice.