He walked with long steps back to the house, and for the first time in her life Grace admired her husband; she felt that, after all, he was not unworthy of his authority. She touched his arm.
“I’m glad you did that, Paul. I felt very proud.”
He removed his arm quickly, so that she shrank away.
“Did you think I was likely to be afraid of my gamekeeper?” he answered disdainfully.
“What are you going to do about me?” she asked.
“I don’t know yet. I must think it over. All that you told me last night was true?”
“Quite true.”
“Why did you tell me?”
“It was the only way to save those people. If I’d had the courage to do it a couple of hours earlier, that poor girl wouldn’t have killed herself.”
He said no more, and silently they reached the house.