She had learned something of the death of the convict, and she knew that the hound was being kept in the out-house on the evening that Sir Henry was coming to dinner. She taxed her husband with his intended crime, and a furious scene followed, in which he showed her for the first time that she had a rival in his love.
Do uszu jej doszła wieść o nagłej śmierci zbiegłego więźnia na moczarach, a że wiedziała, iż pies trzymany jest tam na uwięzi, domyśliła się, jaką śmierć Stapleton gotuje sir Henrykowi, tembardziej, gdy mąż przyprowadził psa i zamknął go w oficynie.