Your court of inquiry has brought out the truth after all." She only stared at him, fascinated.

No colour had returned to her cheeks.
He began to pace the hearth again, lip caught savagely between his teeth.
"You are no more amazed than I am to learn the truth," he said.

"I never supposed it was that....

And it's been that from the moment I laid eyes on you.

I know it now.