"Really, I am.

You made a heroic effort to keep the facts from coming out--a man's-size effort it was.
But the War Office knew long before you did that your brother had succumbed to this woman's lure--that he was serving her and Berlin, and not his own country, England." Fraser-Freer raised his head.

When he spoke there was in his voice an emotion vastly more sincere than that which had moved him when he made his absurd confession.
"The game's up," he said.

"I have done all I could.

This will kill my father, I am afraid.