14/69 If we said it was Sebastian, people would only laugh at us. They must understand Sebastian, as you and I understand him, before they would think such a move credible. As a rule in life, if you know anything which other people do not know, better keep it to yourself; you will only get laughed at as a fool for telling it." "I think so, too. That is why I never say what I suspect or infer from my knowledge of types--except to a few who can understand and appreciate. Hubert, if they all arm for the defence of the town, you will stop here, I suppose, to tend the wounded ?" Her lips trembled as she spoke, and she gazed at me with a strange wistfulness. |