I will find a means to make her speak.

Well, my lord," she added aloud, and speaking in a sarcastic tone, "if you will have it so, it is idle to dispute it.

But what will the Countess say, when she discovers your infidelity ?" On this a brisker movement took place on the couch, and a hand was raised as if to snatch away the 'kerchief.
"We have her," whispered Lady Lake triumphantly to her daughter.
"Surely," she proceeded aloud, "the Countess will deeply resent the transfer of your affections to her handmaiden." Lord Roos saw the peril in which he stood.

A moment more and Lady Lake had gained her point, and the Countess betrayed herself.
"Lady Exeter will place little reliance on any representations you may make, Madam," he said, giving particular significance to his words, "except so far as they concern herself, and then she will take care to refute them.

As to the circumstance of Gillian Greenford visiting me, fainting in my arms (from excess of timidity, poor girl!) and being discovered by you and Lady Roos in that position, the Countess will laugh at it when it comes to her knowledge--as why should she do otherwise?
But she will feel very differently when she finds that you and your daughter insist that it was she herself, and not her handmaiden, whom you beheld.