"Why, of course, you have been unjustly accused by father."
"Stop, Maggie. I have not been unjustly accused by anyone."
"Basil, you know you didn't break the little sister's miniature, nor steal it from Miss Nelson. You know you never did!"
Basil put his arm round Marjorie's waist.
"You think not?" he said with a slow, rather glad sort of smile.
"Think not? I know you didn't do it! You do anything mean and horrid and wicked and shabby like that! You? Look here, Basil, even if you told me you did it, I wouldn't believe you."
"All right, Mag; then I needn't say anything."
"Only you might just tell me——"
"What?"
"That you didn't do it. That you are shamefully and falsely suspected."