My heart began to beat fast, and I felt that I was turning pale.
"Your master, Mr.James Smith," he went on, "came here unexpectedly yesterday evening, and slept in this house last night.

Before he retired to rest he and your mistress had high words together, which ended, I am sorry to hear, in a threat of a serious nature addressed by Mrs.James Smith to her husband.

They slept in separate rooms.

This morning you went into your master's room and saw no sign of him there.

You only found his nightgown on the bed, spotted with blood." "Yes, sir," I said, in as steady a voice as I could command.