What has driven you apart ?" The woman flushed scarlet under this direct inquiry.
"I cannot tell you," she said brokenly, "but the cause--in no way--concerns--either my brother's death--or David's innocence.

It is personal--between Giovanni and myself.

In God's good time, it may be put right." Brett, singularly enough, was a man of quick impulse.

He was moved now by a profound pity for the woman who thus bared her heart to him.
"Thank you for your candour, Mrs.Capella," he exclaimed, with a fervour that evidently touched her.

"May I ask one more question, and I have done with a most unpleasant ordeal.