!' Leonard interrupted in alarm: 'No! no! I only spoke of these items.

You see, being "debts of honour" I ought not to give the names.' Looking with a keen glance at her set face he saw she was obdurate; and, recognising his defeat, said as calmly as he could, for he felt raging: 'All right! Give me the paper!' Bending over the table he wrote.

When she took the paper, a look half surprised, half indignant, passed over her face.

Her watchful aunt saw it, and bending over looked also at the paper.

Then she too smiled bitterly.
Leonard had printed in the names! The feminine keenness of both women had made his intention manifest.