"That's no secret."
"Which wasn't his real name, but his theatrical name. His real name was Woodroffe."
"That is no secret, either."
"Your family wouldn't stand by you, being proud of their connections, although the only gentleman of the lot was myself—and I was in a bank."
"Oh, get on to your secret!"
"But, Cousin Will—Charles's brother—he stood by you, because he was in the play-acting line himself, and he got the boot, too, from the family. Will gave you away. You were married in South Hackney Church. After the wedding you went away. Will met me that same day; I remember I was a little haughty with him, because a bank clerk can't afford to know a common actor. He told me about it."
"What is your secret?"
"Two or three years later I met Will again, and borrowed something off him. Then he told me you had gone off to America."
"That is no secret."