I have to talk for a countyful of women without a tongue in their heads.

So tell me about him.

Is it true that he is at the bottom of all this mischief?
Is it through him that this man committed suicide?
They say so.

He _was_ mixed up in that Royalist plot, wasn't he ?--and the people that have been failing all over the place _are_ mixed up with him, aren't they ?" "I ...

I really don't know," I said; "if you say so...." "Oh, I assure you I'm sound enough," she answered, "the Churchills--I know you're a friend of his--haven't a stauncher ally than I am, and I should only be too glad to be able to contradict.