"It's not I who shall tell her," Mrs.Brook said gently and gravely.

"There!--you may be sure.

If you want a promise, it's a promise.

So that if Mr.Longdon's silent," she went on, "and you are, Mitchy, and I am, how in the world shall she have a suspicion ?" "You mean of course except by Van's deciding to mention it himself." Van might have been, from the way they looked at him, some beautiful unconscious object; but Mrs.Brook was quite ready to answer.

"Oh poor man, HE'LL never breathe." "I see.