Alice followed Gideon's example of setting her cup of tea down. She glanced up at the ceiling, trying to figure out the best way of breaking the news gently to him. She wished Fabian was here to do it, but he was gone somewhere on work.
"Do you remember how I inducted you into the Order? With the questions and the Veritaserum? And how I said there was all a point to it and then you joined? It didn't exactly go that way with Geoffrey. Frank...well, he made a calculated decision and unfortunately it failed. Gideon," here Alice looked straight at him. "Geoffrey is a mole for the Ministry. He was given orders to infiltrate the Order in order to bring us down and he made his way into the Order through you."