“I would not care what the scandal was unless it hurt you.”
“It would be only a temporary inconvenience,” said Benham. “Every one would sympathize with you.... The whole thing is so natural.... People would be glad to forget very soon. They did with my mother.”
“No,” said Amanda, “it isn't so easy as that.”
She seemed to come to a decision.
“Pip,” she said. “I want to talk to—HIM—alone.”
Easton's brown eyes were filled with distress and perplexity. “But why?” he asked.
“I do,” she said.
“But this is a thing for US.”
“Pip, I want to talk to him alone. There is something—something I can't say before you....”
Sir Philip rose slowly to his feet.