She too whispered:
"It was here—I saw Hubert Mason—that night."
"Culprit! Repeat every word—and I will determine the penance."
"As if there had not been already too much! Oh! what a lecture you read me—and you have never apologised yet! Begin—begin—at once!"
He raised her hand and kissed it.
"So? Now—courage!"
And with some difficulty—half laughing—she described the scene with
Hubert, her rush home, her meeting with old Scarsbrook.
"I tell you," she insisted at the end, "there is good in that boy somewhere—there is!"
Helbeck said nothing.
"But you always saw the worst," she added, looking up.