human
I beg your pardon, Miss Duggan? And where exactly did Captain Macdonald come in! Why, when one meets a man running agitatedly away from the particular part of the Castle where the crime had taken place--and just _after_ it--one is inclined to be a little suspicious of that man. It is only natural. Though, thank Heaven, my suspicions were soon quieted, after I discovered that your gallant Captain had really come into the grounds--with your having left the gate ajar for him so that Rhea's bell would not sound--to meet _you_ clandestinely, as he had been forbidden the house. Love will always find a way, you know. Only, it was unfortunate at the time that he should have chosen that night of all others to have come to meet you. You knew of the crime, then, Captain? Or what was it that sent you pelting away so hard from the house that held your affianced bride?
gpt
Simply because I had heard a woman's scream, had seen the lights all over the Castle switch up, and did not want my meeting with Maud to be discovered--lest a more certain means should be taken to keep us apart ever afterward, returned the Captain, a trifle heatedly.
human
And I must confess that I was a bit nonplussed and--and angered when you mistook _me_ for a murderer and held me under suspicion.