He just hesitated. "You haven't any idea at all what it represents?"

"How should I have," I smiled, "when she never comes near me? I've

thought _that_, as I tell you, marked. What does her avoidance of _me_

represent? Has she happened, with you, to throw any light on it?"

"I think," said Brissenden after another moment, "that she's rather

afraid of you."

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