Surely, Risdon, they would not--" Lady Graeme did not finish, but gave her husband a piercing look.
"Don't ask me," he said sadly.

"Many of the men engaged in the smuggling are desperate wretches, and if they feared betrayal they would not scruple, I'm afraid, to strike down any one in the way of their escape." Lady Graeme shuddered, and they went together into the house, just as Celia came across the wood at the back, in company with the dog..