He frightened me into remaining silent." "Quite so.

But you had your suspicions ?" She hesitated and looked down.
"I knew him," she said.

"But if he had kept faith with me I should always have done so with him." "I think that on the whole you have had a fortunate escape," said Sherlock Holmes.

"You have had him in your power and he knew it, and yet you are alive.

You have been walking for some months very near to the edge of a precipice.