“And just after declaring that he wouldn’t.”
“Of course,” she murmured again. “And the current took them right away?”
“Instantly.”
“Was he very tired when you got to him?”
I answered this question and a number of others, backward and forward, until she had led me to cover the whole incident about twice-and-a-half times. Then she had a silence, and after this a reflection.
“How well they managed it!”
“Managed what?”
“The accepted version.”
“Oh, yes, indeed!”
“And you and I will not spoil it for them,” she declared.