20/24 "My nerves are so shaken, the least thing startles me. Speak out, for God's sake! When Mr.and Mrs.Vanstone left this house, tell me in plain words, why did they go to London ?" In plain words, Mr.Pendril told her: "They went to London to be married." With that answer he placed a slip of paper on the table. It was the marriage certificate of the dead parents, and the date it bore was March the twentieth, eighteen hundred and forty-six. The certificate lay beneath her unnoticed. She sat with her eyes rooted on the lawyer's face; her mind stunned, her senses helpless. |