I am right, aren't I ?" She nodded.
"Now, you wait there a little while I make myself presentable and I'll take you home." "Take me home ?" said the startled girl.

"Not to mother, no, no.

She mustn't ever know." "On the contrary, she must know.

I don't know what it is she mustn't know," said Tarling with a little smile, "but there has been a great deal too much mystery already, and it is not going to continue." She rose and walked to the fireplace, her elbows on the mantelpiece, and her head back.
"I'll tell you all I can.

Perhaps you're right," she said.