If you'll only--" "Would you guarantee the truth of anything she should tell me ?" "Absolutely." "Even if she told hidden things ?" "Hidden?
I don't know what you mean.

There's nothing to be hidden.
What she tells you will be the truth, the whole truth, the absolute truth." "I'm--I'm sorry." She turned again to the window.

Houston went forward.
"Sorry?
Why?
There's nothing--" "Miss Jierdon has told me," came in a strained voice, "things that perhaps you did not mean for her to tell." "I?
Why, I--" "That she did pass as you were struggling.

That she saw the blow struck--and that it was you who struck it." "Miss Robinette!" "That further, you confessed to her and told her why you had killed Langdon--because he had discovered something in your own father's life that would serve as blackmail.

That she loved you.