[She watches him move about the study.]

Marcus, you know that I cannot turn my back on these children. [She folds her arms across her stomach.] But as much as I don't truly wish to know anything, I must know how safe these children will be to place with the others.

[She cannot have him passing off the children purely for the sake of getting out of trouble himself. It won't do them or the children already under her care any good.]