"How do you know?"
"I tell you, we have talked. And I saw. He almost cried that he couldn't go to Dieppe, and that somebody else——"
"Who began the talk?" he demanded.
"What do you say?"
"Who began?"
"Oh, what nonsense! Who does begin to talk? How do I know? It came, Mr. Loring."
Tom said nothing.
"You look as if you didn't believe me," she remarked, pouting.
"I don't. He's the most unsuspicious fellow alive."