“Have you any idea who that is?”
He laughed; actually laughed aloud.
“Have I not had enough of cross-examination?”
“I could not help wondering why, as I have been told, you confessed to the warning you gave the poor girl.”
“About the danger of tempting hot blood, and so forth?”
“Yes, that.”
“It was the truth.”
“Yes, but——”
He put a finger to his lips, glancing at her with some solemnity.
“You were not going to say that it is my way to repress the truth?”