Madam, have you any further ideas?
If so, I should be glad to have the benefit of them." Her self-possession was at once restored.
"You would ?" she repeated, eying him somewhat doubtfully.

"I should like to be assured of the value of the one I have already advanced, before I venture upon another.

Let us enter into a conference instead; compare notes; tell, for instance, why neither of us look on Bartow as the guilty man." "I thought we had exhausted that topic.

Your suspicions were aroused by the young couple you saw leaving the house, while mine--well, madam, to you, at least, I may admit that there is something in the mute's gestures and general manner which conveys to my mind the impression that he is engaged in rehearsing something he has seen, rather than something he has done; and as yet I have seen no reason for doubting the truth of this impression." "I was affected in the same way, and would have been, even if I had not already had my suspicions turned in another direction.

Besides, it is more natural for a man to be driven insane by another's act than by his own." "Yes, if he loved the victim." "And did not Bartow ?" "He does not mourn Mr.Adams." "But he is no longer master of his emotions." "Very true; but if we take any of his actions as a clew to the situation, we must take all.