Rénine made her sniff at a bottle of salts; and when she had quite recovered her composure, he said, while observing her attentively:
"So you think that there is some connection between the murder and the plot which we were trying to frustrate?"
"Certainly," said she, astonished at the question.
"Then, as that plot was hatched by a husband against his wife or by a wife against her husband, you admit that Madame d'Ormeval … ?"
"Oh, no, impossible!" she said. "To begin with, Madame d'Ormeval did not leave her rooms … and then I shall never believe that pretty woman capable…. No, no, of course there was something else…."
"What else?"
"I don't know…. You may have misunderstood what the brother and sister were saying to each other…. You see, the murder has been committed under quite diffe
