"Not even if you were free?" she asked.
"Not even then."
She looked toward the next room. "Go in, Howel, and bring Mrs.
Evelin back; I have something to say to her."The discovery that she had left the house caused no fear that she had taken to flight with the purpose of concealing herself. There was a prospect before the poor lonely woman which might be trusted to preserve her from despair, to say the least of it.
