A Fair Fraud — page 224: what you’re looking at

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A Fair Fraud 213 ‘You are going before the inquest, then?’ He looked her full in the eyes. ‘Yes, he said, after a significant pause. ‘Is not that what you would like me to do? Mrs Drury has just told me,’ he went on, meaningly, ‘that I know nothing about the dead man.’ She flashed a grateful look into his eyes, and she could see by their expression that it was to please her that he intended to go away. And it was at that moment that Marion realised that he really loved her. ‘I am going,’ he went on, with a smile, ‘to practise a masterly inactivity; it is sometimes the very cleverest thing one can possibly do.’ ~ The smile reflected itself on her own face, and she blushed slightly, for she knew that he spoke with a double meaning. ‘There will be others to identify the man and to give him his real name,’ he continued gently. ‘Hester, you mean?’ ‘Yes. I hope so. If she is what you believe her to be she will do so. The mother hasn’t got it in her to be honest, but the daughter may very likely justify your good opinion of her, and, failing Hester, Marion, — there is someone else.’ - ‘Someone else?’ she repeated. He had called her ‘Marion’ for the first time, but she had scarcely noticed that. GORMGIOO oO G' Q)