“I know.”

She paused a minute.

“Have they found him?” she asked timidly.

“No.”

“Then how do you know about it ?” she asked again, hardly audibly and again after a minute’s pause.

He turned to her and looked very intently at her.

“Guess,” he said, with the same distorted helpless smile.

A shudder passed over her.

“But you⁠ ⁠… why do you frighten me like this?” she said, smiling like a child.