And I think you ought to know.

Only--it was in confidence." She paused for a moment, looking at him, and her face grew troubled.

"I hate to suggest it," she continued, "but--will you come with me to see him, and I'll ask him--things being as they are--to tell you what he told me.

I can't--without his permission." Ransford shook his head and frowned.
"I dislike it!" he said.

"It's--it's putting ourselves in his power, as it were.