"He had no business to forget."
"Why didn't you tell him?"
"Not I—not likely!"
"But being out after hours wasn't anything. It wasn't knocking those blackguards about. Why didn't you deny that anyway?"
"Oh, shut up, Alick."
Again Gell tugged at his shoulders and said,
"But why didn't you?"
"If you must know, I'll tell you—because they would have had you for it next."
Mrs. Gale had found the big window of the lavatory open at a quarter-past nine, and when she sent Jamieson down he saw Gell closing it.
"Do you mean that.... that to save me, you allowed yourself to...."