'But I only told you,' she said, 'because I wanted your advice.
What made you tell him?
There must have been some reason, some good reason, some necessity.' 'No; there was no necessity, no good reason, no reason at all,' Fielding replied doggedly.

'I told him because--' he stopped abruptly; the reason seemed too pitiful for him even to relate.
'Well, because ?' asked Mrs.Willoughby.There was a note of hardness in the utterance.

Fielding raised his eyes and glanced at her face.
'It comes too late,' he said unconsciously, and he was thinking of Drake's advice.
'The reason!' she insisted, taking no notice of the sentence.

'The reason!' 'I told Mallinson at the time when I was always meeting him here.' Mrs.Willoughby gave a start.

'And because of that ?' she cried.
'Yes,' said he.