Perfect candour would involve Carmel.

Seeming candour was all I could indulge in.

I took a quick resolve.

I would appear to throw discretion to the winds; to confide to him what men usually hold sacred; to risk my reputation as a gentleman, rather than incur a suspicion which might involve others more than it did myself.

Perhaps I should yet win through and save her from an ignominy she possibly deserved but which she must never receive at my hands.
"I will give you an account of my evening," said I."It will not aid you much, but will prove my good faith.