Colonel Ray called to say that he was sorry to have spoilt my lecture." "And Lady Angela ?" "Yes." "She came in too ?" The girl's open-mouthed curiosity irritated me.
"I happened to be ill when Colonel Ray came.

They were both very kind to me." "This man, then," she continued, "he looked in and went away ?" "I suppose so," I answered.

"I saw no more of him." She turned towards me breathlessly.
"I don't see how a fall could have killed him, or how he could have wandered off into the marshes just there.

The creek isn't nearly deep enough to have drowned him unless he had walked deliberately in and lain down.

He was quite sober, too, when he spoke to me.