She is not a timid girl, so she walked boldly up the avenue until she met Fergusson, the butler, who was then going to tell Mrs.Eastham.When she heard his story she was too shocked to credit it, and asked him to bring me.

I came.

By that time I was beginning to realise that I might be implicated in the affair, and I begged her to return home at once, alone.
She did so.

Subsequently she asked me not to refer to the escapade, for obvious reasons.

It was a woman's little secret, Brett, and I was compelled to keep it." "Anything else, Winter ?" demanded the barrister, wrapped in a cloud of his own creation.
"That is all, sir, except the way in which I heard of Miss Layton's meeting with Mr.Hume." "Not through Fergusson, eh ?" "Not a bit.