"And of course I thought you'd told her."
"If I had told her it wouldn't have been all right; for she wouldn't have married you."
Majendie scowled, and Edith went on calmly.
"I knew that—she as good as told me so—and I knew her."
"Well—what if she hadn't married me?"
"That would have been very bad for both of you. Especially for you."
"For me? And how do you know this isn't going to be worse? For both of us. It's generally better to be straight, and face facts, however disagreeable. Especially when everybody knows that you've got a skeleton in your cupboard."
"Anne didn't, and she was so afraid of skeletons."
"All the more reason why you should have hauled the horrid thing out and let her have a good look at it. She mightn't have been afraid of it then. Now she's convinced it's a fifty times worse skeleton than it is."
"She wouldn't have lived with it in the house, dear. She said so."