I understood vaguely what she meant; that if Churchill fell amid the clouds of dust of such a collapse, there would be an end of belief in probity ...

or nearly an end.

But I could not see what it all led up to; where it left us.
"You see," she began again, "I want to make it as little painful to you as I can; as little painful as explanations _can_ make it.

I can't feel as you feel, but I can see, rather dimly, what it is that hurts you.

And so ...