"No, I dare not; he would have told my father, and I should have been detained."
"And you have known all this time that suspicion rested upon Mr. Maynard, and that he was suspected of having gone away with you?" asked Irene.
"That is so, but he has forbidden me to speak about it."
"He knows you are here!" exclaimed Irene.
"Promise you will not mention it to anyone, and I will tell you all," said Janet.
Irene sat down and, as she did so, said—
"If I promise I will not mention what you tell me to anyone but my husband, will that satisfy you?"
"Why inform him?"
"Because I may find it necessary," said Irene.
"It will be better not to do so."