"I hope you realize what you are doing by keeping silence," he said.
"I'm keeping a still tongue in my head, for one thing." "For one thing--yes.

For another, you're injuring Sisily--you're doing more than injure her.

You're letting her remain under suspicion of her father's death, in hiding in London, hunted by the police.

Yet she believed in you.

It was she who sent me to you, it was she who said: 'Tell Thalassa from me to tell the truth, if he knows it.' Is she mistaken in you, Thalassa?
Do you think more of your own skin than her safety ?".