“Naturally I should have to say that you had warned me against him.”
“No—no, you mustn’t do that.”
“Really? I am to be bound hand and foot while you—”
“You saw what I wrote in that letter.”
“Yes, of course. Naturally I will not show it. But I shall have to say that you warned me to drop him.”
“I can’t have my name mentioned to that man,” said Lady Sellingworth desperately.
“And I can’t drop him without telling him why.”
“Beryl, you haven’t read to the end of my letter.”
“But I have!”
“Then have you forgotten it? Look! I wrote in it that I don’t think he will ask for your reason if you refuse to see him again.”