And that, while you were from home, the man who called himself, and was called by you, your nearest friend, stepped before you--made love to her, betrayed her--and left her to bear the shame....

I myself know that he kept you in ignorance, and that, away from here, he let you still write to him in friendship and answered in that tone....

All know that she drowned herself because of him, and that you knew naught until you yourself entered the Kelpie's Pool and found her body and carried her home....

After that you left the country to find and fight Ian Rullock.

Folk know, too, that he evaded you then.