Then leave the rest to me." "And suppose it were discovered ?" asked the woman, whose face had grown considerably paler.
"Well, suppose the worst happened, and it were discovered ?" he asked, raising his brows slightly.

"Should we be any worse off than would be the case if this girl took it into her head to expose us--if the facts which she could prove placed us side by side in an assize-court ?" The woman--clever, scheming, ambitious--was silent.

The question admitted of no reply.

She recognised her own peril.

The picture of herself arraigned before a judge, with that man beside her, rose before her imagination, and she became terrified.