"Madam, it is a startling answer to the question you put me before we
first left your house. You asked then if the child in the wagon was
Gwendolen. How could it have been she with this evidence before us of
her having been concealed here at the very time that wagon was being
driven away from--"
"I do not think you have reason enough--" she began and stopped, and did
not speak again till we halted at the foot of her own porch. Then with
the frank accent most in keeping with her general manner, however much I
might distrust both accent and manner, she added as if no interval had
intervened: "If those signs you noted are proofs to you that Gwendolen
was shut up in that walled-off portion of the bungalow while some were
seeking her in the water and others in the wagon, _then where is she
now_?"