For Gwendolen had never referred the interview at the Whispering Stones to Lush's agency; her disposition to vague terror investing with shadowy omnipresence any threat of fatal power over her, and so hindering her from imagining plans and channels by which news had been conveyed to the woman who had the poisoning skill of a sorceress. 
For Gwendolen did not know about Lush's involvement; she had never considered how news had been conveyed to Mrs. Glasher. 