What, very ill?-Agatha'smute answer was enough.

Again the same mute answer.

It seemed to Betty watching them, that thus he gave a mute answer to some mute question or entreaty made.

The bowed head sank yet lower, as though in mute answer, and his ears caught the echo of a single muffled sob.

A mute answer could not but stir up fancies in a girl's mind, especially after what I had written on the tablets.