But only two of them acted suspiciously.

These two were Jane Morton and Stephen Roland.

Stephen Roland's anxiety is accounted for by the fact that he is evidently in love with Mrs.Brenton.But the change in Jane Morton has been something terrible.

She is suffering from the severest pangs of ineffectual remorse.

She has not gone out again to service, but occupies a room in one of the poorer quarters of the city--a room that she never leaves except at night.