‘If you will.’
‘One word more. Do you wish our kinship to be known to her, or is it to be kept a secret, at least for a while?’
‘Do not tell her.’
Then Jasper went out into the hall. Barbara was there, in the window, looking out into the dusk through the dull old glass of the lattice.
‘Miss Jordan,’ said he, ‘I have ventured to ask you to return to your father, and receive his assurance that I spoke the truth.’
‘But,’ exclaimed Barbara, turning roughly upon him, ‘you were on the Raven Rock with my sister at sunset, and had your brother planted at the gate to watch against intruders.’
‘My brother?’
‘Yes, a boy.’
‘I do not understand you.’
‘It is true. I saw him, I saw you. Eve confessed it. What do you say to that?’