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142 Enter lower door.  Sir Malcolm Clark to see you, sir.  [As if startled by a sudden memory.] Ah!—Bring him in. [ goes out by upper door, R.

enters by lower door.  Sorry to make so late a call, sir, but the matter is urgent. [Sitting.] You will remember that when your little daughter's governess came here two months ago I made so bold as to cast doubts on her identity?  I do.  And that after making inquiries of your own you gave me to understand, in the girl's presence, that you were satisfied about her bona fides?  I remember.  You will also remember that later the same evening you called me back over the telephone, and then told me, in the young woman's absence, that you believed my suspicions to be justified, but for reasons you did not desire to disclose, you wished me to keep a careful eye on her friends, leaving the girl herself to you?