"No."
"Then where comes in the point of thy words?"
"I mean that thou hast walked as fast to meet this trouble as thou shouldst have walked away from it. Was any with thee when thou didst find the knife?"
"No, 'twas between the going of Huntoon and the coming of the others."
"And didst show it to Neale or Cornwaleys?"
"No—I was half stunned and walked on in silence; but when Neville came to meet me I was maddened by his impudent boldness, and I charged him with the crime then and there."
"Were you two alone?"
"Ay, but for Ralph Ingle and Elinor."
"But for them! As well tell a secret to two hundred as to two. No flies get through a shut door; but once open, it may as well be kept so, and let them in and out at will. Therefore, as I said at the beginning, thou art a fool."