That is all I have to say," with her chin very much in the air! "I did it, of course, because I did not care to be mixed up in _any_ private or family affairs.

That is not my business." I was taken aback, as you can imagine! But, of course, I thanked her--' 'Why, she couldn't have done anything else!' said Beryl with vivacity.
'I don't know that.

Anybody may witness anything.

But she seems to have guessed.

Of course my father never keeps anything to himself.
Anyway she didn't like being thanked at all.