No anger now; he was too deeply shaken for that, too shaken to answer at once--too shaken to be quite the master of his own faculties.

But he rallied after an interval during which these three men devoured his face, each under his own special anxiety, and read there possibly what each least wanted to see.
"I don't know anything about it," were the words with which Arthur Cumberland sought to escape from the net which had been thus deftly cast about him.

"I didn't wear the things.

Anybody can tell you what clothes I came home in.

Ranelagh may have borrowed--" "Ranelagh wore his own coat and hat.