What game?
Nothing in her words had revealed its nature, yet the man instinctively felt that it must involve Molly McDonald.

Laboriously he reviewed, word by word, each sentence exchanged, striving to find some clue.

He had pricked her in the Gaskins affair, there was no doubt of that; she knew, or at least suspected, the party firing the shot.

She denied at first having been married to Le Fevre, and yet later had been compelled to acknowledge that marriage.

There then was a deliberate falsehood, which must have been told for a purpose.