"He told me all that.

He understands that; but he doesn't care, he says, if _I_ only consent.
He will forgive _you_, he says." Minnie's volubility was suddenly checked by catching her sister's eye fixed on her in new amazement.
"Now you're beginning to be horrid," she cried.

"Don't, don't--" "Will you have the kindness to tell me," said Mrs.Willoughby, very quietly, "how in the world the Count contrived to tell you all this ?" "Why--why--several times." "Several times!" "Yes." "Tell me where ?" "Why, once at the amphitheatre.

You were walking ahead, and I sat down to rest, and he came and joined me.

He left before you came back." "He must have been following us, then." "Yes.