"And you haven't told the bye about goin' back to his grandfather?"
"I haven't spoken a word to the boy on the subject."
"Then how did he know about it?"
"Does he know about it?"
Peggy then told her companion about what she had overheard Jack say in his sleep the night before. Lyman Taylor was surprised and alarmed, and these feelings were so evident on his face that Peggy acquitted him of any breach of faith.
"I don't understand it," he said, meditatively. "I have never spoken a word about the matter except in your room. Did you ask him about it?"
"I asked him when did he see you, and he said yesterday."
"He might have seen me, but I had no conversation with him."
"So he said."
"He told the truth. I don't think any harm is done, Peggy. He must have overheard what we were talking about when we supposed him asleep."