Sit down, Una." They had reached a little circle by a piece of ornamental water, facing which a granite-hewn seat had been placed.

She sank to it obediently, if sulkily.
"It may perhaps help you to understand what Terence has done when I tell you that in his place, loving Dick as I do, I must have pledged myself precisely as he did or else despised myself for ever.

And being pledged, I must keep my word or go in the same self-contempt." He elaborated his argument by explaining the full circumstances under which the pledge had been exacted.

"But be in no doubt about it," he concluded.

"If Terence knows of Dick's presence at Monsanto he has no choice.