'But when I tell you, silly woman, he confessed it to me out of his own mouth!'
'It is not true now.'
'It's not going on, you mean? How do you know?'
'I know.'
'Has he been swearing it?'
'He has not spoken of it to me.'
'Here I am in a woman's web!' cried the colonel. 'Is it your instinct tells you it's not true? or what? what? You have not denied that you love the man.'
'I know he is not immoral.'
'There you shoot again! Haven't you a yes or a no for your father?'
Cecilia cast her arms round his neck, and sobbed.