How did she convey it there?
She would not have intrusted it to Mrs.Barker.

The idea struck him now as distastefully as it seemed improbable.

Perhaps she had been here herself with her companion--the convent sometimes made that concession to a relative or well-known friend.

He recalled the fact that he had seen Mrs.Barker enter the hotel alone, after the incident of the opening door, while he was leaning over the balustrade.
It was SHE who was alone THEN, and had recognized his voice; and he had not known it.

She was out again to-day with the procession.