Her lips parted with a gasp.
"I think you have been indiscreet. Yesterday you saw Miss Winton."
Her face fell.
"Yes. I'm sorry. I know! She was so kind, and for a moment I forgot." To herself Winnie added bitterly, "I didn't think she would have let it out."
"You forgot—what?"
"We were talking, and I—somehow I said—something. I forgot that you don't like people to know how kind you've been to us—paying for Raye, and all that!" She glanced up penitently. "I know it was wrong. But I didn't mean—"
"You told Miss Winton about Raye!" This was news, and his face darkened.
"I'm so sorry. It—somehow it just slipped out. I don't think I said 'school,' but I did say 'college.'"
"You have always been told that these things were not to be mentioned."
"I know! I forgot."