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`` Awfully sorry -- I ca n't help . Tell Dimsdale about -- you know . '' `` Do n't go spreading it , though , '' said Arthur , shutting his eyes to the fact that he was confiding his secret to the greatest gossip in Grandcourt , and that one or two other heads were also craned forward to hear the joke . `` I caught them going it like one o'clock in the hotel garden at Lucerne -- it was the first time I twigged what was up ; and what do you think he called my sister ? '' `` What ? '' they all demanded . `` Keep it close , I say .