Yes; I know.

Kate has been wrong, hasn't she?
Kate was cautioned, no doubt, to say nothing about your comings and goings to so inconsiderable a person as myself.

But you must not be down upon Kate.

She never mentioned it till I showed by my question to her that I knew all about your journey to Matching.

I own I do not understand why it should be necessary to keep me so much in the dark." Alice felt that she was blushing.