“Isn’t there any way of stopping that, at least?” Ward said to me.
“None on earth, unless you go home at once and turn your visitors and THEIR servants out of the house,” I answered.
“There is nothing they shouldn’t know,” said Mrs. Harman.
George turned to her with a smile so bravely managed that I was proud of him. “Oh, yes, there is,” he said. “We’re going to get you out of all this.”
“All this?” she repeated.
“All this MIRE!” he answered. “We’re going to get you out of it and keep you out of it, now, for good. I don’t know whether your revelation to the Spanish woman will make that easier or harder, but I do know that it makes the mire deeper.”
“For whom?”
“For Harman. But you sha’n’t share it!”
Her anxious eyes grew wider. “How have I made it deeper for him? Wasn’t it necessary that the poor woman should be told the truth?”
“Professor Keredec seemed to think it important that she shouldn’t.”