"You needn't—he's loyal enough. Thought he was doing you a good turn—both of us a good turn. Said it wasn't going to be quite so easy as you'd expected. So now I know you see—know it's going to be horridly, hideously dangerous."
"Oh, my dear," he said, "why didn't you leave it alone?"
"I'm not the sort," she answered. "Where I love, Tony, I—I protect."
"You've a life time ahead to protect me in," he said.
"I'm going to do it now," said she. "You're not going, Tony."
"Listen," said Barraclough very earnestly, "there can't be any interference in this. A false move now might ruin everything. If they knew I was making a dash tonight——"
"They will know."
"How?"
"I shall tell them."
He shook his head. "Hardly, my dear. Besides I don't think you know who to tell."