'Half-confidences are worse than none.

Besides, you do not know how much we know of it.' "'On your head be it, Alice!' cried her mother; and then, turning to me, 'I will tell you all, sir.

Do not imagine that my agitation on behalf of my son arises from any fear lest he should have had a hand in this terrible affair.

He is utterly innocent of it.

My dread is, however, that in your eyes and in the eyes of others he may appear to be compromised.