Has there ever been a quarrel between them ?" I told him of the quarrel, and of how Josephine had looked and talked when she showed me her cheek.
"Yes," he said, "that is a strong motive for revenge with a naturally pitiless, vindictive woman.

But is that all?
Had your mistress any hold over her?
Is there any self-interest mixed up along with this motive of vengeance?
Think a little, William.

Has anything ever happened in the house to compromise this woman, or to make her fancy herself compromised ?" The remembrance of my mistress's lost trinkets and handkerchiefs, which later and greater troubles had put out of my mind, flashed back into my memory while he spoke.

I told him immediately of the alarm in the house when the loss was discovered.
"Did your mistress suspect Josephine and question her ?" he asked, eagerly.
"No, sir," I replied.

"Before she could say a word, Josephine impudently asked who she suspected, and boldly offered her own boxes to be searched." The lawyer's face turned red as scarlet.