"Everything."

This, with the way he dropped it, again consider
ably moved her made her feel for a moment that,
as a matter of course, she was a subject for disclos
ures. But she quickly found her answer. " Oh, as
for that, you must ask her"

"Your clever companion?"

"Mrs. Lowder."

He replied to this that their hostess was a person
with whom there were certain liberties one never
took, but that he was none the less fairly upheld,
inasmuch as she was for the most part kind to him
and as, should he be very good for a while, she
would probably herself tell him. " And I shall
have, at any rate, in the meantime, the interest of
seeing what she does with you. That will teach
me more or less, you see, how much she knows."

Milly followed this it was lucid; but it suggest
ed something apart. " How much does she know
about you?"

"Nothing," said Lord Mark serenely. " But
that doesn't matter for what she does with me."
And then, as to anticipate Milly's question about
the nature of such doing: " This, for instance
turning me straight on for you."

The girl thought. " And you mean she wouldn't
if she did know?"

He met it as if it were really a point. " No. I
believe, to do her justice, she still would. So you
can be easy."

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