She rose and examined the bolts of the door, and, seeing everything was secure, sat down again.
"I shall never have any peace in this world again," she cried to herself.
She rocked back and forth silently for a few moments.
"I wish," she said, "the police would find out all about it, and then this agony of mind would end." Again she rocked back and forth, with her hands helplessly in her lap.
"Oh, I cannot do it, _I cannot do it_!" she sobbed, still rocking to and fro.

Finally she started to her feet.
"I _will_ do it," she cried; "I will confess to Mrs.Brenton herself.

I will tell her everything.

She has gone through trouble herself, and may have mercy on me." "There, you see," said Speed to Brenton, "we have overcome the difficulty, after all." "It certainly looks like it," replied Brenton.

"Don't you think, however, that we had better stay with her until she _does_ confess?
May she not change her mind ?" "Don't let us overdo the thing," suggested Speed; "if she doesn't, come to time, we can easily have another interview with her.