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Then I should not have to re-enter that conservatory door or look again in her face, or " He had taken out the cursed jewel and was fingering it in a nervous way which went to my heart of hearts. Gently removing it from his hand, I asked with all the calmness possible: "What is all this mystery? Why have your suspicions returned to Gilbertine?
On the contrary, it was Gilbertine who turned, and, with an air of authority for which no one was prepared, asked in tones vibrating with feeling: "Has this gentleman the official right to question who was and who was not with my aunt when she died?" Mr.
We never thought of answering her. "Where is Gilbertine?" demanded Sinclair, thrusting his hand out as if to put her aside. She drew herself up with sudden dignity. "In bed," she replied. "It was she who told me that somebody had shrieked. I didn't wake." Sinclair uttered a sigh of the greatest relief that ever burst from a man's overcharged breast.
Oh, it is a rich nature, an ideal nature. I think we can trust her now." I did not like to discuss Gilbertine, even with Dorothy, so I said nothing. But she was too full of her theme to stop. I think she wished to unburden her mind once and for ever of all that had disturbed it. "Our aunt's death," she continued, "will be a sort of emancipation for her.
We never knew Mrs. Lansing's reason for this act. Gilbertine had always been considered her favourite, and, had the will been a late one, it would have been generally thought that she had left her thus unprovided for solely in consideration of the great match which she expected her to make. But the will was dated back several years long before Gilbertine had met Mr.
But what chiefly impressed me in connection with this afternoon's events was the short talk I had with Sinclair. I fear I forced this talk, but I could not let the dreary day settle into still drearier night without making clear to him a point which, in the new position he held toward Gilbertine, if not toward myself, might seem to be involved in some doubt.
She is shut up in her own room, under the care, I am told, of Mrs. Armstrong's maid." "I know; but she will escape that dreadful place as soon as her feet will carry her. I shall wait in the hall till I see her come out; then I will urge her to follow me, and she will do so, attended by Gilbertine."
But I could see that he advanced this theory solely out of consideration for me; that he did not really believe it. "At all events," he went on, "we cannot prove anything this way; we must revert to our original idea. I wonder if Gilbertine will give me the chance to speak to her." "You will have an easier task than I," was my half-sullen retort.
But Sinclair showed every evidence of wishing to keep in the background; and while this was natural enough, so far as people in general were concerned, I thought it odd and very unlike him not to give me an opportunity to express my congratulations at the turn affairs had taken and the frank attitude assumed by Gilbertine.
Had this been otherwise, had we found a friend instead of a tyrant in the woman who took us into her home, Gilbertine might have gained more control over her feelings.
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