'No.'
He breathed freer.
'And do they know?'
'By they, I suppose you mean Mrs. Tomkin-Jones and her daughters?'
'It is with them you are staying?'
'Yes—and they know nothing.'
'She—did she—I mean your mother—did she bring you to Bath?'
'No. Mrs. Jose did that.'
'Mrs. Jose, certainly. Charming. But who is Mrs. Jose?'
'She is the farmer's wife at Bindon.'