Tobias offered Anne a hand to get in the back of the cart, but she climbed in without it. Tobias sat down in the front, leaving a space for this mysterious other Mr. Appleton. Anne observed him cautiously. He had said lawyers never shared what they had heard, but this case was entirely different now. Surely this man would not keep quiet when someone tried to undermine his own brother's marriage. And then Alice might get in trouble for it. And her father would hear about it.

"So you have more business in Whitby, then?" she heard Tobias say.

Anne's pleading eyes tried to catch the man's without Tobias noticing.