CHAPTER 40“What will you do?” said Jenny.
Miss Silver regarded her compassionately.
“I think you must know that, my dear,” she said.
They were on their way back from the cottage. Jenny felt weak and tired, and as if a very long time had passed since she had got up that morning and Richard had gone off to catch his train to town. She said,
“Yes, I know. You’ll tell the police.”
“You know that I must tell them.”
Jenny was silent for a moment. Then she said,
“It’s a dreadful thing. It’s too dreadful for one to take it in. Mac—he’s always been so—so——” She paused for a word, and then said, “dominating. And for a long time I thought that he cared for me. When I found out that he didn’t it was as if I was all alone. Do you know that feeling—as if everyone else in the world was gone away a
