I wonder--" and she stopped.
"You wonder that the Major did not tell you, Miss Greendale.

I asked him, myself.

When you think it over, you will understand why he could not tell you; for he had no actual proof, save the dying girl's words and what I had seen and heard; and his motive in telling it might have been misunderstood.

But he told me that, even at the risk of that, he should feel it his duty, if you became engaged to that villain, to tell the story to Lady Greendale.
"But if he found it hard to speak, there seemed to me no reason why I shouldn't.

Except my father and mother and he, no one knows that I was well nigh a murderer.