If Mark had had anybody, he'd have got me to help him, because it would be all in the family, and I'd be bound to keep it dark.
Wouldn't he turn green if he knew I'd twigged him! Anyhow, I'll keep it as close as putty now, and help him worry through.

Very knowing of him to go with a candle and let him out this morning, and look so struck all of a heap.

He took me in regularly." Arthur said this to himself in a tone which implied that if Mark had been able to take _him_ in, it was little to be wondered at that all the rest of the house had been hoodwinked.
"Hard luck," thought he condescendingly.

"I daren't tell Dig.

He's such a gossip, it would be all over the place in a day.