Besides, dreadful as the discovery had been, I would rather have made it, and suffered under it, as I was suffering now, than have been kept in the dark.

I told him this.

And then I turned to the one subject that was now of any interest to me--the subject of my unhappy husband.
"How did he come to this house ?" I asked.
"He came here with Mr.Benjamin shortly after I returned," the Major replied.
"Long after I was taken ill ?" "No.

I had just sent for the doctor--feeling seriously alarmed about you." "What brought him here?
Did he return to the hotel and miss me ?" "Yes.

He returned earlier than he had anticipated, and he felt uneasy at not finding you at the hotel." "Did he suspect me of being with you?
Did he come here from the hotel ?" "No.