"Well, gentlemen, I will tell you. As you are well aware, on
arrival at this station we were all ordered to leave the car, and
marched to the waiting-room, out there. As a matter of course, the
lady entered first, and she was seated when I went in. There was a
strong light on her face."

"Was her veil down?"

"Not then. I saw her lower it later, and, as I think, for reasons
I will presently put before you. Madame has a beautiful face, and
I gazed at it with sympathy, grieving for her, in fact, in such a
trying situation; when suddenly I saw a great and remarkable
change come over it."

"Of what character?"

"It was a look of horror, disgust, surprise,--a little perhaps of
all three; I could not quite say which, it faded so quickly and
was followed by a cold, deathlike pallor. Then almost immediately
she lowered her veil."

"Could you form any explanation for what you saw in her face? What
caused it?"

"Something unexpected, I believe, some shock, or the sight of
something shocking. That was how it struck me, and so forcibly
that I turned to look over my shoulder, expecting to find the
reason there. And it was."