Glumly, he stared down at the vibrant little figure beside him.
"There is some of it I don't know, myself," she began.

"And lately I've found myself wondering if all I really know is true, or whether they have been deceiving me about some of it.
I have no right to feel that way, I suppose, about my own brother.

But he's so horribly under Rodney Hade's influence, and--" Again, she paused, seeming to realize she was wandering from the point.

And she made a fresh start.
"It all began as an adventure, a sort of game, more than in earnest," she said.

"At least, looking back, that's the way it seems to me now.