"It's he then who has told you ?" She after a moment admitted it.

"It's he." "And he doesn't lie ?" "No--to do him justice.

I believe he absolutely doesn't.

If I hadn't believed it," Mrs.Assingham declared, for her general justification, "I would have had nothing to do with him--that is in this connection.

He's a gentleman--I mean ALL as much of one as he ought to be.