He did not wish to bear alone the responsibility of such an adventure.

There was no knowing what might happen to her, visiting a strange house under an assumed name.

But when he saw how thoroughly in earnest she was and that she was ready to proceed without him he capitulated.

He agreed that she might be able to find the missing letters or if not that she might make some impression on Ryder himself.

She could show interest in the judge's case as a disinterested outsider and so might win his sympathies.