Vernon changed his tone.
"Shall I tell you what he said?"
"I know his language so well."
"He said—"
"But you have acted on it?"
"Only partly. He said—"
"You will teach me nothing."
"He said . . ."
"Vernon, no! oh! not in this house!"
That supplication coupled with his name confessed the end to which her quick vision perceived she was being led, where she would succumb.