"There can be very little doubt of it."
"Oh! then nobody thinks that I knew it? That I'm like her?"
"Nobody could think that of you."
"What am I to do? I'm so helpless, and I've no one to advise me. And it's not as if we really knew anything."
"My dear, I think you should leave her."
"Of course I shall leave her. I can't stay another day. But I don't know how I ought to do it."
"Would you like to consult Colonel Hankin?"
"Oh no; I don't think I could bear to speak about it to him."
"Well—and perhaps he would not like to be brought into it, either."
"Then what reason can I give her?"