He rose and put his chair back.

"Except--" he added slowly.
"Yes ?" "Except that there was left upon my mind when the verdict was published a vague feeling of doubt." "There!" cried Mrs.Pettifer triumphantly.

"You hear him, Harold." But Hazelwood paid no attention to her.

He was gazing at his brother-in-law with a good deal of uneasiness.
"Why ?" he asked.

"Why were you in doubt, Robert ?" But Pettifer had said all that he had any mind to say.
"Oh, I can't remember why," he exclaimed.