'Gave it away ?' I exclaimed.

'To whom?
And when ?' He moved uneasily on his seat and avoided my eye, his altered manner filling me with suspicions which the insight I had just obtained into his character did not altogether preclude.

At last he said, 'I had nothing to do with it, if you mean that; nothing.

On the contrary, I have done all I could to make it up to her.

I followed her here.