Her hands supporting one knee, her head bent, Rhoda listened without comment, and, to judge from her features, without any emotion of any kind.
'That,' said her friend at the close, 'is the story as it was understood at the time--disgraceful to him in every particular.

He knew what was said of him, and offered not a word of contradiction.

But not very long ago he asked me one evening if you had been informed of this scandal.

I told him that you knew he had done something which I thought very base.

Everard was hurt, and thereupon he declared that neither I nor any other of his acquaintances knew the truth--that he had been maligned.