"Is she still on the beach ?" "She is following me to this place," Mrs.Crayford replied.

"I have been speaking to her this morning.

She is just as resolute as ever to insist on your telling her of the circumstances under which Frank is missing.
As things are, you have no alternative but to answer her." "Help me to answer her, Lucy.

Tell me, before she comes in, how this dreadful suspicion first took possession of her.

All she could possibly have known when we left England was that the two men were appointed to separate ships.