"No."
"I shall tell you the truth," she said, as she resumed her seat. "The
plan was of his devising from first to last. Nor did I encourage him to
its execution. For until to-day I never heard a word of it. Since the
night of that dance in Donegal I have had no message from Mr. Feversham,
and no news of him. I told him to take up those three feathers because
they were his, and I wished to show him that I agreed with the
accusations of which they were the symbols. That seems cruel? But I did
more. I snapped a fourth white feather from my fan and gave him that to
carry away too. It is only fair that you should know. I wanted to make
an end for ever and ever, not only of my acquaintanceship with him, but
of every kindly thought he might keep of me, of every kindly thought I
might keep of him. I wanted to be sure myself, and I wanted him to be
sure, that we should always be strangers now and--and afterwards," and
the last words she spoke in a whisper. Captain Willoughby did not
understand what she meant by them. It is possible that only Lieutenant
Sutch and Harry Feversham himself would have understood.
"I was sad and sorry enough when I had done it," she resumed.
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