He distrusted his prowess with a gun.
"By the by, was he not at the picnic when you saved my daughter's life?
I can never thank you enough, Stocks.

What should I have done without my small girl ?" "Yes, he was there.

In fact he was with Miss Alice at the moment she slipped." He may not have meant it, but the imputation was clear, and it stirred one fiery expostulation.

"Oh, but he hadn't time before Mr.Stocks came after me," she began, and then feeling it ungracious towards that gentleman to make him share a possibility of heroism with another, she was silent.

More, a lurking fear which had never grown large enough for a suspicion, began to catch at her heart.