“Oh no, I don’t! not now. But at that time I didn’t know you. It’s only been since coming on board and finding out what you’ve done—”
Curiosity prompted her to glance round at me.
“Then it was only since coming on board?”
“Oh, it was simple enough. It’s silly to keep up the secret. I was talking, while we were still in the dock at Liverpool, with that handsome Canadian nurse.”
“Miss Ogden. She was matron of the hospital at—”
“She knew who you were. She couldn’t tell me your name, but she said—or Miss Prynne said—that you’d come over with Evelyn—that you’d been at Taplow with Mabel—”
“I know; the sort of thing that goes round among nurses.”
“And so I put two and two together and formed a theory.”
“You needn’t tell me what it is. Please don’t.”