Part 2 (1/2)
”Where is the wo--”
Bulstrode bowed ”Tellof her, in a word--in a word”
”Well, she is always clever,” said the young man, slowly, ”always very beautiful, and then very poor”
”Yes,” nodded Bulstrode
”She is like the rest of us--one of a fast wild set--a----”
”A gambler?” Bulstrode helped the description
”She played,” acknowledged the young ed to her, Waring?”
”Yes,” he slowly acknowledged, as if each word hurt hiuilty?”
”I think,” said the other, with an inscrutable expression, ”she could not have done so”
”But she let you go under suspicion?”
”Yes”
”Without a word of good faith, of comfort?”
”Yes”
”Did she know of your embarrassments?”
”Too well”
”You tell me she was poor and--possibly she had embarrassments of her own?”
”Possibly”