_He_ was beside himself.

_He_ fixed his pitiless eyes on Grace, and echoed the contagious words: "You are mad!" She was silenced, she was daunted at last.

The treble accusation revealed to her, for the first time, the frightful suspicion to which she had exposed herself.

She shrank back with a low cry of horror, and struck against a chair.

She would have fallen if Julian had not sprung forward and caught her.
Lady Janet led the way into the library.