Perhaps he wished to hear it, too.
Mr.Moffat rose to more than his accustomed height.

The light which sometimes visited his face when feeling, or a sense of power, was strongest in him, shone from his eye and irradiated his whole aspect as he inquired tellingly: "And how did you return?
With whom, and by what means, did you regain your own house ?" The answer came, with simple directness: "In the same way I went.

I drove back in my brother's cutter and being all alone just as before, I put the horse away myself, and went into my empty home and up to Adelaide's room, where I lost consciousness." The excitement, which had been seething, broke out as she ceased; but the judge did not need to use his gavel, or the officers of the court exert their authority.

At Mr.Moffat's lifted hand, the turmoil ceased as if by magic.
"Miss Cumberland, do you often ride out alone on nights like that ?" "I never did before.

I would not have dared to do it then, if I had not taken a certain precaution." "And what was this precaution ?" "I wore an old coat of my brother's over my dress, and one of his hats on my head." It was out--the fact for the suppression of which I had suffered arrest without a word; because of which Arthur had gone even further, and submitted to trial with the same constancy.