Mr.Lionel, I ask you, sir, was she likely to do it ?" "I should have deemed it very unlikely," replied Lionel.

"Until to-day," he added to his own thoughts.
"No, she never did! Was it the work of one to go and buy herself aprons, and tape, and cotton for sewing, who was on her way to fling herself into a pond, I'd ask the crowner ?" he continued, his voice rising almost to a shriek in his emotion.

"Them aprons be a proof that _she_ didn't take her own life.

Why didn't they bring it in Wilful Murder, and have the place scoured out to find him ?" "The verdict will make no difference to the finding him, Robin," returned Lionel Verner.
"I dun know that, sir.

When a charge of wilful murder's out in a place, again' some one of the folks in it, the rest be all on the edge to find him; but 'Found drownded' is another thing.