If she 'trusts' us, as I said just now, it isn't for THAT she does so." As his friend appeared to wait then to hear, it was presently with positive joy that he showed he could meet the last difficulty.

"What she trusts us to do"-- oh Mitchy had worked it out!--"is to let HIM off." "Let him off ?" It still left Mr.Longdon dim.
"Easily.

That's all." "But what would letting him off hard be?
It seems to me he's--on any terms--already beyond us.

He IS off." Mr.Longdon had given it a sound that suddenly made Mitchy appear to collapse under a sharper sense of the matter.

"He IS off," he moodily echoed.
His companion, again a little bewildered, watched him; then with impatience: "Do, please, tell me what has happened." He quickly pulled himself round.