24 ‘Once More Into the Breach, Dear Friends’For some moments after Mr Campion’s startling announcement no one spoke.
‘You’d better explain, Albert,’ said Isopel at last.
‘I suppose I had,’ Campion agreed. ‘We shall have to get a move on pretty quickly, too. We shan’t be the only people to spot this disgusting example of newspaper nosery. This rag has a couple of million circulation. I’m desperately sorry, all of you,’ he went on hurriedly, as they sat staring at him. ‘I’ve added to the anxiety of the past day or two, but it couldn’t be helped. It wasn’t that I didn’t trust you, but I wanted you all to live up to your parts. I didn’t know what steps they’d take to get information from us, and I wanted to be quite sure that you were all genuinely in the dark.’
‘But he disappeared in front
