"I don't want to dwell on matters that must pain you--that must pain us both," he said slowly, "but it is necessary that you should be made acquainted with the danger that threatens me from this man. I am anxious to avoid anything in the nature of a public scandal--I am anxious quite as much if not more on your account than my own. But if this wretched man is allowed to go on trying to build up a case against me--and I must admit that he would probably obtain circumstantial evidence of a kind which would make some sort of a case for the prosecution--there is grave danger of everything coming out. If he went to the length of having me arrested and charged with the crime, there are bound to be some disclosures and the newspapers would make the most of them. It is impossible to foresee the exact nature of them, but I do not see how I could adopt any line of defence which would not hint at things that are best unrevealed. You yourself might be so ill-advised as to tell the whole story in the end. Of course, I would try to prevent you, and as far as the trial is concerned, I think I could use means to prevent you. But if the result was unfavourable--and knowing what eccentric things juries do, we must recognise the possibility of an unfavourable verdict--you might consider it advisable to disclose everything in the hope of having the conviction quashed by an appeal." For the first time since she had sat down he looked at her, and as he caught her upward gaze he flushed. "I would tell everything if you were arrested," she said, in a low voice.