Would she have the right, even if she wished it, to tell the truth, or part of the truth?
Or, would she be entitled to relate some immaterial incident which would evade the real truth?
What good could it do to tell the dark story?
What could it serve?
Eglington would horribly misunderstand it--that she knew.

There were the verses also.

They were more suggestive than anything else, though, indeed, they might have referred to another woman, or were merely impersonal; but she felt that was not so.

And there was Eglington's innate unbelief in man and woman! Her first impulse held, however.

She would act honestly.