"Yes;--yes, Miss Vavasor. I had thought of it. No doubt I had thought of it. But I had believed all through that you would assure me that there was no danger. I believed that you would have said that she was innocent."
"And she is innocent," said Alice, rising from her chair, as though she might thus give emphasis to words which she hardly dared to speak above a whisper. "She is innocent. Who accuses her of guilt? You ask me a question on his behalf--"
"On hers--and on his, Miss Vavasor."

"Yes - yes, Miss Vavasor. But I believed that you would have said that she was innocent."
"And she is innocent," said Alice, rising from her chair. "She is innocent. Who accuses her of guilt? You ask me a question on his behalf-"
"On hers - and on his, Miss Vavasor."
