There was no one in sight of them now.
'Excuse me for making you get up,' he said.

'I wanted to see you alone for a moment.' Margaret said nothing in answer to this apology, and she met his fixed eyes coldly.
'You were with Miss Bamberger when she died,' he said.
Margaret bent her head gravely in assent.

His face was as expressionless as a stone.
'I thought she might have mentioned me before she died,' he said slowly.
'Yes,' Margaret answered after a moment's pause; 'she did.' 'What did she say ?' 'She told me that it was a secret, but that I was to tell you what she said, if I thought it best.' 'Are you going to tell me ?' It was impossible to guess whether he was controlling any emotion or not; but if the men with whom he had done business where large sums were involved had seen him now and had heard his voice, they would have recognised the tone and the expression.
'She said, "he did it,"' Margaret answered slowly, after a moment's thought.
'Was that all she said ?' 'That was all.

A moment later she was dead.

Before she said it, she told me it was a secret, and she made me promise solemnly never to tell any one but you.' 'It's not much of a secret, is it ?' As he spoke, Mr.Van Torp turned his eyes from Margaret's at last and looked at the grey sea beyond the ventilator.
'Such as it is, I have told it to you because she wished me to,' answered Margaret.