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And now he was secretly assisting her own child--a child of
sixteen--to do what he had told her, the mother, not to do. Why was he
doing this?
Again the monstrous idea that she had forcibly dismissed from her mind
that day returned to Hermione. There is one thing that sometimes
blinds the most clear-sighted men, so that they cannot perceive truth.
But--Hermione again bent over the sheets of paper, this time seeking
for a weapon against the idea which assailed her. On several pages she
found emendations, excisions, on one a whole verse completely changed.
And on the margins were pencilled "Monsieur Emile's suggestion";
"Monsieur E.'s advice"; and once, "These two lines invented by
Monsieur Emile."
When had Vere and Emile had the opportunity for this long and secret
discussion? On the day of the storm they had been together alone. They
had had tea together alone. And on the night Emile dined on the island
they had been out in the boat together for a long time. All this must
have been talked over then.


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