Fortunately Mrs.Phillips would give no trouble.

She would not even understand.
What about Hilda?
No hope of hiding their secret from those sharp eyes.
But Hilda would approve.

They could trust Hilda.

The child might prove helpful.
It cast a passing shadow upon her spirits, this necessary descent into details.

It brought with it the suggestion of intrigue, of deceit: robbing the thing, to a certain extent, of its fineness.