No, Mallow, in some way Mrs.
Octagon has learned that you have killed her--" "But I never did--I never did.

I told you everything." "What you told me may have been told to Mrs.Octagon with additions.
She thinks you guilty, and therefore has threatened to denounce you unless Juliet gives you up.

She has done so, therefore Mrs.Octagon holds her bitter tongue." "But her reason for wishing to break off the marriage." "We discussed that before.

In the first place, you are Caranby's nephew and she hates him.

In the second, she and Basil want the fingering of the six thousand a year left by Miss Loach.