Whether she was seeking corroboration or complicity he could not tell.
"Have you found this out yourself ?" he asked, after a pause.
"Yes.

One of my friends at the convent was Josita Castro; she knew all the history of the Arguellos.

She is perfectly satisfied." For an instant Paul wondered if it was a joint conception of the two schoolgirls.

But, on reflection, he was persuaded that Yerba would commit herself to no accomplice--of her own sex.

She might have dominated the girl, and would make her a firm partisan, while the girl would be convinced of it herself, and believe herself a free agent.