Tell me again, is that right or wrong ?" Julian answered him as before.

He went on, speaking more confidently and more excitedly than he had spoken yet.
"Now attend to this, Julian.

I am going to pass from my memory of what happened a week ago to my memory of what happened five minutes since.
You were present; I want to know if you heard it too." He paused, and, without taking his eyes off Julian, pointed backward to Mercy.

"There is the lady who is engaged to marry me," he resumed.

"Did I, or did I not, hear her say that she had come out of a Refuge, and that she was going back to a Refuge?
Did I, or did I not, hear her own to my face that her name was Mercy Merrick?
Answer me, Julian.