Greeba caught her breath, and answered, "Yes."
"Did you know of it while you were still in the Isle of Man?"
"Yes," she answered again, more faintly.
"Did he tell you?"
"Yes, and he bound me by a promise never to speak of it, but I could not keep it from my own husband."
"That's strange," said Michael Sunlocks, with a look of pain. "To share a secret like that with you was very strange," he added.
Greeba was flurried, and said again, too bewildered to see which way her words were tending, "And he gave me his promise in return to put aside his sinful purpose."
"That's still stranger," said Michael Sunlocks. "Greeba," he added, in another tone, "why should you say you did not know Jason?"
"Because the Lagmann was with us."
"But why, my girl? Why?"