"Evidently!"
"She had been crying."
"And told you why?"
"Yes."
The father frowned:
"She has been in the habit of making you her confidant?"
"No. But I found her in tears and asked her the reason for them."
Norton was watching closely:
"She told you what I had just said to her?"
"Vaguely," Tom answered, and turning squarely on his father asked: "Would you mind telling me the whole truth about it?"