club-talk

Updated: July 15, 2025

He had not imagined that his secret, such as it was, had passed into the keeping of any other man, still less that it had become club-talk in London. He saw at once what evil construction might be put upon it by malicious gossip-mongers, and he knew that henceforth he was face to face with a danger which he could do little or nothing to avert. What should he attempt in his defence?

Adeline Sergeant - Name and Fame: A Novel