You have been very kind to me, you have made an honourable offer to me, you have said you were my friend.

I ought to have told you before.
If I had had any idea of what was passing in your mind, I would have told you, cost what it might." Mr.Juxon gravely bowed his head.

She was quite right, he thought.

He had a right to know all.

With all his kind-heartedness he was a stern man by nature.
"Yes," continued Mrs.Goddard, "you have every right to know.