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Whose voice then? Stella's, as we say as we know. But if not Stella's, as Jenny Prask says why then there is only one other woman's voice which could have given the news." "Jenny's," cried Millie with a sudden upspring of hope. "Yes, Jenny Prask's." Millie Splay rose from her chair swiftly and rang the bell; and when Harper answered it, she said: "Will you ask Jenny to come here?" "Now, my lady?"
She was of too strong a brain for that folly. But she had some clear purpose to harm somebody; and Martin's heart sank as he conjectured who that some one might, nay must, be. Meanwhile, he thought, let Sir Chichester pursue his questioning. He got glimpses through that clouded medium into Jenny Prask's mind.
Else the mud of it would cling to Joan all her life. She would be spoilt. Harry Luttrell, too! If he married her, if he did not. But Martin could not think of a way out. The whole plan was an artful, devilish piece of hard-headed cunning. Martin fell to wondering where was Jenny Prask's weak joint. She certainly looked, with her quiet strength, as if she had not one at all.
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