She'll need somebody to take care of her, poor child! But who is to tell her the truth?
For I suppose she must be told ?" "I want you to tell her," said Robert Turold.

"Choose your time.

There is no immediate hurry, but she must be in no false hopes about the future.
She had better be told before the Investigations Committee meets." "Bother the Investigations Committee!" exclaimed Mrs.Pendleton.

"Really, Robert--" Mrs.Pendleton broke off abruptly, in something like dismay.

She had a fleeting impression of a pair of eyes encountering her own through a crack in the doorway, and as swiftly withdrawn.