You've done every thing else, but you've never done that.
But what I really don't a bit want," she declared, "is to abet them or to protect them." Her companion turned this over.

"What is there to protect them from ?--if, by your now so settled faith, they've done nothing that justly exposes them." And it in fact half pulled her up.

"Well, from a sudden scare.

From the alarm, I mean, of what Maggie MAY think." "Yet if your whole idea is that Maggie thinks nothing-- ?" She waited again.

"It isn't my 'whole' idea.