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No expression of shame, no word of regret, came from Lady Altamont. She turned away in the direction of the door. She was beaten all along the line, and she knew it. It was nothing to her that she had practically been accused of the attempted murder of her own sister. She made no attempt to deny that she would have been guilty of that to hide her crime. At the same time, she was puzzled and baffled. She had not been entirely told how her enemies had got the best of her. Burles followed her thoughts with a grim smile on his face.
"It seems to me that you are very well out of this," he said. "You are lucky not to be standing in the dock to answer a most serious charge.