"I really cannot tell you," I said, at last--"I am quite as much in the
dark as you are. I think she is overwrought, and that she has perhaps
taken some of the things Mr. Santoris said too much to heart.
Then"--here I hesitated--"she said the other day that she was tired of
this yachting trip--in fact, I think it is simply a case of nerves."
"She must have very odd nerves if they persuade her to believe that she
and Brayle committed a murder together ages ago"--said Mr. Harland,
irritably;--"I never heard of such nonsense in all my life!"