"I see.

I thought of that at once.

She went directly to the company's offices to see if she could save anything from the wreck before she saw me.

It was like her, poor girl! And you--you," he went on eagerly, his whole face beaming with gratitude,--"you, out of your goodness, came here to tell me." He held out both hands and took hers in his.
For a moment Mrs.Horncastle was speechless and vacillating.

She had often noticed before that it was part of the irony of the creation of such a simple nature as Barker's that he was not only open to deceit, but absolutely seemed to invite it.