"Will you tell her," said Brodrick, "or shall I?"
"I'll tell her. I'll tell her now. But you must back me up."
Brodrick fetched Jane. He had found her as Gertrude had said. She was heavy-eyed, and dazed with the embraces of her dream. But when she saw the look that passed between Hugh and Henry her face was one white fear. The two were about to arraign her. She took the chair that Henry held for her.
Then he told her. And Brodrick backed him up with silence and a face averted.
It was not until Henry had left them together that he spoke to her.
"Don't take it so hardly, Jinny," he said. "It's not as if you knew."
"I might have known," she answered.
She was thinking, "George told me that I should have to pay—that there'd be no end to my paying."