That is one fact we have to face, one hard fact; MacNutt is not over and done _with us_!" "But haven't you made a sort of myth of him?
Isn't he only a fable to us now?
And haven't we got real facts to face ?" "Ah," she said protestingly, "there is just the trouble.

You always refuse to look _this_ fact in the face!" "Well, what are the facts ?" he asked conciliatingly, coercing his attention, and demanding of himself what allowance he must make for that morbid perversion of view which came of a too fatigued body and mind.
"The facts are these," she began, with a solemnity of tone that startled him into keener attentiveness.

"You found me in MacNutt's office when he was planning and plotting and preparing for the biggest wire-tapping _coup_ in all his career.

You were dragged into that plot against your will, almost, just as I had been.

But MacNutt gave us our parts, and we worked together there.