When my father knew of them, he waited quite steadily and faced my father." There was other evidence of the like kind not within Ethne's knowledge.
Harry Feversham had journeyed down to Broad Place in Surrey and made his confession no less unflinchingly to the old general.

But Ethne knew enough.

"It was the possibility of cowardice from which he shrank, not the possibility of hurt," she exclaimed.

"If only one had been a little older, a little less sure about things, a little less narrow! I should have listened.

I should have understood.