"It all came out safely enough.

But--I think I've paid to-day for my right to ask such a question--how does it happen that you and your brother--you, especially--can have sunk to such straits that you take orders meekly from a murderer like Rodney Hade, and that you let him dictate what guests you shall or shan't receive ?" She shivered all over.
"I--I have no right to tell you," she murmured.

"It isn't my secret.

I have no right to say there is any secret.

But there is! And it is making my life a torture! If only you knew--if only there were some one I could turn to for help or even for advice! But I'm all alone, except for Milo.