"Solicitude."
"Oh. You warned him to leave? And he an enemy and a spy?"
"I begged him to go, Mr. Drogue."
"Do you still call yourself a friend to liberty?" I asked angrily.
"Yes, sir. But I was his friend too. I did not know he had come here. And when by accident I recognized him I was frightened, because I thought he had come to carry news to Lady Johnson."
"And so he did! Did he not?"
"He said he came for me."
"To visit you?"
"Yes, sir. And I think that was true. For when he made himself known to his sister, she came near to fainting; and so he spoke no more to her at all but begged me for a tryst before he left."
"Oh. And you granted it?"