"
"Oh!" It was a gasp of horror, of incredulity. She loosed his
arm and drew away from him. "It is infamous! I can't believe it.
I can't."
"It is true. I swear it to you. I was present, and I heard."
"And you allowed it?"
"What could I do? How could I interfere? Besides, the minister
who demanded that undertaking knew nothing of the relationship
between O'Moy and this missing officer."
"But - but he could have been told."
"That would have made no difference - unless it were to create
fresh difficulties."
She stood there ghostly white against the gloom. A dry sob broke
from her. "Terence did that! Terence did that!" she moaned. And
then in a surge of anger: "I shall never speak to Terence again. I
shall not live with him another day. It was infamous! Infamous!"
"It was not infamous. It was almost noble, almost heroic," he
amazed her. "Listen, Una, and try to understand." He took her arm
again and drew her gently on down that avenue of moonlight-fretted
darkness.
"Oh, I understand," she cried bitterly. "I understand perfectly.
He has always been hard on Dick! He has always made mountains out
of molehills where Dick was concerned. He forgets that Dick is
young a mere boy.
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