“That’s easy, Mr. Caution,” she says. “It’s all quite simple, only I’m afraid that I couldn’t very well prove it. I wrote some letters to Granworth telling him I wanted to see him. I’d heard that he was making a fool of himself over a woman and although I’d believed for some time that he was unfaithful I’d never had any actual proof. I was never very happy with Granworth. He drank; he was excitable and often silly, but when he made this money and said that he was going to turn over two hundred thousand dollars’ worth of bonds to me I thought that maybe he’d turned over a new leaf. He talked about starting a new life together. He even went so far as to buy some more insurance—an annuity policy payable in ten years time or at his death—so that, as he said, we should be able to face the futur
