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Max Barclay re-traced his steps along Oxford Street much puzzled. What Marion had told him was both startling and curious in face of the sudden disappearance of the Doctor and his daughter. If the latter had made a confession, as she apparently had, then Marion was, after all, perfectly within her right in not betraying her friend.
Yet what could that confession be? Marion had said it was "a terrible confession," and as he went along he tried in vain to imagine its nature.