Meredith," she replied calmly, "and I am not in any way associated with the police." "Nevertheless," he persisted, "you do not seem to be very scared of them and that removes any temptation I might have to place you in the hands of the law.

Let me see," he pursed his lips as he applied his mind to the problem.
She half sat, half stood, watching him without any evidence of apprehension, but with a heart which began to quake a little.

For three months she had played her part and the strain had been greater than she had confessed to herself.

Now the great moment had come and she had failed.

That was the sickening, maddening thing about it all.