It's dreadful--dreadful! Did you know it ?" Dale looked from her to me, and after a slight pause, came forward.
"Is this true, Simon ?" A plague on the woman for catching me in the trap! Before Dale came in I was on the point of putting an airy construction on my indiscreet speech.

I had no desire to discuss my longevity with any one.

I want to keep my miserable secret to myself.

It was exasperating to have to entrust it even to Dale.

And yet, if I repudiated her implied explanation of our apparent embrace it would have put her hopelessly in the wrong.