"He has been here."
"You surely don't correspond?"
"We have corresponded."
"Good heavens! it is worse than I thought. But you will promise me not to continue the acquaintance?"
"No, I cannot promise that!"
"Not after all I have told you of him?"
"You have told me nothing to Mr. Walcott's discredit. I have answered your questions because you are, as you reminded me, my brother. Does it not strike you that you have rather exceeded your privilege?"
Sydney was amazed at her quiet indifference.
"I really cannot understand you, Lettice. Do you mean to say that you will maintain your friendship with this man, although you know him to be a——"
"Well?"