False and True
- Days go by after Mrs. Hale's funeral with no word from Frederick, which is a great concern for Margaret. She's actually thankful when Dixon announces Mr. Thornton's visit, hoping that the man will be able to distract her father from his grief.
- While Mr. Thornton is there, Dixon tells Margaret that she is wanted at the door.
- Turns out that a police inspector is looking to speak with Margaret. He informs her that a man named Leonards has recently died in the street after leaving one of the town's pubs. The doctors have later found out that the man's liver was completely destroyed by years of alcoholism, but there are questions about whether the guy's death was caused by a fall he took earlier that night at the train station. If so, then the man who pushed him might be on the hook for manslaughter.
- The inspector has come to ask Margaret about it because one of the workers at the train station claimed that they saw her there with a young man.
- Margaret, though, flat out lies and denies that she was ever at the train station on the night in question. She can't run the risk of the police finding out that Frederick is in England. If only she knew whether he was out of the country. But she hasn't received any letters from London saying so.
- The inspector shuts his pocket book and tells her that she might still have to swear in court that she was not at the train station.
- Once the inspector is gone, Margaret goes into the study alone and falls onto the floor in a swoon.