More than once she had laid a trap for Kate.

She had arranged things in a special order and then called Josephine to witness.
"You see, Jug ?" "Quite, Con." "Now we shall be able to tell." But, oh dear, when she did go to look, she was as far off from a proof as ever! If anything was displaced, it might so very well have happened as she closed the drawer; a jolt might have done it so easily.
"You come, Jug, and decide.

I really can't.

It's too difficult." But after a pause and a long glare Josephine would sigh, "Now you've put the doubt into my mind, Con, I'm sure I can't tell myself." "Well, we can't postpone it again," said Josephine.

"If we postpone it this time--".