She did not tell him about Crale. That was her mistake, and she knew it was a mistake even as she made it, and made it anyway, because she had spent two years protecting the people she loved by carrying things alone. So when Mr. Ashworth came to her lodgings that Friday evening — properly, with the landlady's knowledge, and
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