"Yes.

It was arranged between them some time yesterday.

But I never left her alone until she said she was going to lie down." "And I never left him until you told me she had gone to bed." "She did not lie down, then," said the Duke.
"Then she lied up and down," said Barker, savagely playful.
"Ladies do not lie," said the Duke, who did not like the word, and refused to laugh.
"Of course.

And you and I are a couple of idiots, and we have been protecting her when she did not want to be protected.

And she will hate us for ever after.