You might say that it made the case all the worse for me." March forbore to say, and Burnamy went on.

"But I didn't suppose they would be onto him so quick, or perhaps at all.

I thought--if I thought anything--that it would amuse some of the fellows in the office, who know about those things." He paused, and in March's continued silence he went on.

"The chance was one in a hundred that anybody else would know where he had brought up." "But you let him take that chance," March suggested.
"Yes, I let him take it.

Oh, you know how mixed all these things are!" "Yes." "Of course I didn't think it out at the time.