She put another pillow behind her head so that she could sit up.
As she faced her father, she wondered what he was about to say.
“I am afraid this will shock you, as indeed it has shocked me, but I think it is something you should know.”
Marcia looked at him in surprise.
Then he told her exactly what the Comtesse had told him about Sardos.
Marcia listened and then, when her father ceased speaking, she questioned,
“Do you really believe what the Comtesse has told you, Papa? It seems incredible.”
“That is what I thought myself,” the Earl agreed. “At the same time I dislike that young man and I would not put anything past him.”
“I dislike him too,” Marcia nodded, “but it is very difficult to believe that he would murder his uncle.”
“We cannot ignore the possibility,” the Earl remarke
