"Well, and you? Oh, I see. You only mean other people's. Agreed, agreed! Perfect openness and candour about them by all means!"
"I am quite serious. One never knows how much harm may be done by concealing them."
"Got a murder on your conscience?"
"Oh, not exactly," sighed Eleanor.
"You're like that chap Kilshaw. He's always talking as if he had something awful up his sleeve."
"Perhaps he has."
As Eleanor said this, she jumped up and ran to meet Alicia, whom she saw coming towards her. Lady Eynesford had wasted no time over her task.
The Captain, being left alone, did the appropriate thing. He soliloquised.
"She'd have told me in another half-minute," said he, with a chuckle. "It was choking her. Yet she's a sensible one as they go."