I'll take another." He took another, and many others thereafter.

He and his superior cleared the plate between them.
Brown was prepared for questions concerning his occupation of the afternoon and was ready with some defiant queries of his own.

But no occasion arose for either defiance or cross-examination.

Seth never hinted at a suspicion nor mentioned the young lady at the bungalow.
Brown therefore remained silent concerning what he had seen from the attic window.

He would hold that in reserve, and if Atkins ever did accuse him of bad faith or breach of contract he could retort in kind.
His conscience was clear now--he was no more of a traitor than Seth himself--and, this being so, he felt delightfully independent.