Chapter 49

It was not difficult to get an opportunity, as she rarely left the house, and Mrs. Carleton was not exigent in her demands on her companion’s time. So the two strolled in the rose-garden late one afternoon, and Rob asked Miss Burt to tell him why she hesitated so when on the witness stand, and why she looked at Carleton with such unmistakable glances of inquiry, which he as certainly answered. Dorothy Burt replied to the questions as frankly as they were put. “To explain it to you, Mr. Fessenden,” she said, “I must…