"Yes I do, perfectly well, and you will both thank me hereafter."
"Stop a moment; what is it you intend to tell him?"
"Only what I have found out—that all is as he wishes, so he need not be afraid."
"You have not found out any such thing."
"Oh, have I not though?"
"Decidedly not. All you have discovered is, that I had some foolish idea that it might possibly be on my account that he was not coming home. That is all you could honestly tell him, and you will do more harm than good if you do; depend upon it, you will only make matters worse by interfering."
"Well, if it is to do no good, I would rather that he did not know I had found out his secret, but keep it as I have done."
"Since when?" asked Isabel.
"Last spring, when we had to leave you on the rock, but of course I did not let him see it."
"Then do not enlighten him now, you will only make him uncomfortable."