If I or she should chance to be Involved in this affair, He trusts to you to set them free, Exactly as we were. An obstacle that came between Him, and ourselves, and it. For this must ever be A secret, kept from all the rest, Between yourself and me. I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it. The Knave shook his head sadly.
Nothing can be clearer than that.
There was a silence. Sentence firstverdict afterwards. So Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been.