Adele waited until she had in part recovered her composure, and then asked with no expression in her voice, “And what did Beatrice and Eva say when you told them, too?”
“I didn't tell them at all,” exclaimed Lady Mentone sharply. “They don't know, now. I should die if Beatrice heard about everything, and Eva wouldn't speak to me again if she knew.” Her voice rose in her earnestness. “I tell you no one but Norman and Mr. Larose know that these letters have existed, and only Mr. Larose has seen them. It was Mr. Larose who found them,” and then she went on to tell everything that had happened from the day Larose had arrived at the Priory up to when, that same morning, he had said she must come up herself to ‘The Towers’ and convince Mary that she was so cruelly misjudging Norman Athol.
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