No answer.
"And with a young man?"
Still no answer. At last he said: "I tell you, mother, that there was no inquest--no inquiry. No judicial inquiry, I mean."
"Betsy says that Woolmer (some man she knows, who is in a grocer's shop out at Crampton) can swear that Miss Hale was at the station at that hour, walking backwards and forwards with a young man."
"I don't see what we have to do with that. Miss Hale is at liberty to please herself."

No answer.
'And with a young man?'
Still no answer. At last he said: 'I tell you, mother, that there was no judicial inquiry.'
'Betsy says that some man who is in a grocer's shop at Crampton can swear that Miss Hale was at the station, walking with a young man.'
'I don't see what we have to do with that. Miss Hale is at liberty to please herself.'
