Diana listened attentively, and when he concluded gave it as her opinion that Lydia had entered the first yard by the side passage and had climbed over the fence into the second, "as is clearly proved by the veil," she concluded decisively.
"But why should she take all that trouble, and run the risk of being seen, when it is plain that your father expected her ?" "Expected her!" cried Diana, thunderstruck.

"Impossible!" "I don't know so much about that," replied Lucian drily, "although I admit that on the face of it my assertion appears improbable.

But when I met your father the second time, he was so anxious to prove, by letting me examine the house, that no one had entered it during his absence, that I am certain he was well aware the shadows I saw were those of people he knew were in the room.

Now, if the woman was Mrs.Vrain, she must have been in the habit of visiting your father by the back way." "And Ferruci also ?" "I am not sure if the male shadow was Ferruci, no more than I am certain the other was Mrs.Vrain." "But the veil ?" Lucian shrugged his shoulders in despair.

"That seems to prove it was she," he said dubiously, "but I can't explain your father's conduct in receiving her in so secretive a way.