He recalled now some gossip of the servants, and hints dropped by Susy of a violent quarrel between Peyton and Pedro, which resulted in Pedro's dismissal, but which now seemed clearly attributable to some graver cause than inattention and insolence.

He recalled Mary Rogers's playful pleasantries with Susy about Pedro, and Susy's mysterious air, which he had hitherto regarded only as part of her exaggeration.

He remembered Mrs.Peyton's unwarrantable uneasiness about Susy, which he had either overlooked or referred entirely to himself; she must have suspected something.

To his quickened imagination, in this ruin of his faith and trust, he believed that Hooker's defection was either part of the conspiracy, or that he had run away to avoid being implicated with Susy in its discovery.
This, too, was the significance of Gilroy's parting warning.

He and Mrs.Peyton alone had been blind and confiding in the midst of this treachery, and even HE had been blind to his own real affections.
The wind had risen again, and the faint light on the opposite wall grew tremulous and shifting with the movement of the foliage without.