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"A great deal easier than you have any right to expect," Nevil said. "I don't quite see how we are going to save a certain amount of curious gossip and, even in my case, people will be asking questions. Also, they will want to know why Haywood has been hiding for a week in my friend's house. But we need not go into that. As far as you two are concerned, you will get out of England within a fortnight or take the consequences. You are a couple of very clever scoundrels and, having the command of a good deal of capital, no doubt will do well in another sphere of life. Mind you, I am not doing this for your sake, or out of any mistaken clemency, but out of my respect for a certain lady who is known to her friends as the daughter of Everard Murray."
"Damn you," Murray said. "Is there anything you don't know?"