A negative shake of the head.

"Did she take the turning that leads to the railway?"

Another negative shake of the head.

"She went on, toward the moor?"

An affirmative reply.

"What did she do when she got to the moor?"

Hester Dethridge wrote: "She took the footpath which leads to Craig
Fernie."

Lady Lundie rose excitedly to her feet. There was but one place that a
stranger could go to at Craig Fernie. "The inn!" exclaimed her ladyship.
"She has gone to the inn!"

Hester Dethridge waited immovably. Lady Lundie put a last precautionary
question, in these words:

"Have you reported what you have seen to any body else?"

An affirmative reply. Lady Lundie had not bargained for that. Hester
Dethridge (she thought) must surely have misunderstood her.

"Do you mean that you have told somebody else what you have just told
me?"