"It seems to me that yours are the most important just now.

Aren't you going to tell me anything about them ?" She gave a small, emphatic shake of the head.

"I should have been dead by this time if you hadn't interfered," she said.

"I haven't got any affairs." "Then it's up to me to look after you," Merryon said, quietly.
But she shook her head at that more vigorously still.

"You look after me!" Her voice trembled on a note of derision.