"A girl brought up as she has been?"
"Aha!"
"You're very confident. Tony, there are people watching this flat to-night."
"Dear, dear!"
"People who will talk tomorrow morning."
"What, the chatty-at-breakfast-kind. How dreadful."
"If you wish to stop them, there is only one way."
"Yes—tell me. Always believed they were incurable."
Auriole shut her hands tight and spoke with difficulty.
"Tony, I don't know how real your affections are for this girl, but I know this. If you refuse to answer our questions your chance of marrying her is worth—nothing. Understand? Nothing."