CHAPTER 31Lois could hardly believe her ears.
“Me?” she said in amazement. “I think I am the Countess of Moron? How absurd! I think nothing of the kind!”
“Yes, you do,” nodded Mrs. Rooks. “The doctor said you think you’re the countess. You tried to murder Lady Moron because you wanted the title!”
The suggestion was so ludicrous that Lois laughed.
“How ridiculous! Such an idea has never entered my head. Lady Moron! Why, I am a secretary—where did you hear this?”
“The doctor told me,” said the woman stubbornly. “He never tells lies—except to people he owes money to, but that’s natural, ain’t it?”
She went out of the room soon after and was gone for half an hour, apparently attending to the needs of the other prisoner, for when she came back she had something to say about discontented p
