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Falconer knew this was going to be difficult. Bonham had a secret he could not possibly allow to be revealed. Falconer now knew it, and he could not hide it from the boy. Thomas's eyes fell on the body on the table and his face turned chalky white. He stopped struggling and went almost limp in the little man's firm grasp, all fight gone. Bonham stood as if transfixed, not knowing what to do next. Gently, Falconer tried to resolve the impasse.
‘I am sorry to have disturbed you in this way. We should have announced our presence,' he began conversationally, as though he and his student had merely dropped in on Bonham to discuss some text of Plato. ‘I should not have let my curiosity get the better of me. It was unforgivable. Thomas, we should leave.'