He told her that he had come down to see Anne and that he had done his best to keep her from going away and that it was all no good.
"We can't stop her. She's got an unbreakable will."
"Unbreakable," she said. "And yet she's broken."
"I know," he said.
In her nervous exaltation she felt that Eliot had been sent, that Eliot knew. Eliot was wise. He would help her.
"Eliot——" she said. "Will you see me in the library after dinner? I want to ask you something."
"If it's about Anne, I don't know that there's anything I can say."
"It's about Jerrold," she said.
After dinner he came to her in the library.
"Where's Jerrold?"