When I warned Robin, the night before she went away, I did not count on war or I could have said more--" "What did you warn her of ?" "Of making mistakes about the men who would make love to her.

I warned her against imagining she was as safe as she would be if she were a daughter of the house she lived in.

I knew what I was talking about." "Did she ?" was Coombe's concise question.
"Of course she did--though of course she pretended not to.

Girls always pretend.

But I did my duty as a parent.