"If people start dying, or if she does cause any of that, of course I'll tell everything I know. Really, she's just hiding on her own, trying to protect herself." Besides the fact that she didn't want to reveal, or lose, a source, Demelza also didn't want her to get in trouble. "I doubt you'd be able to find her anyway."
Was it ridiculous? She wasn't as convinced as before but she wasn't entirely sure that it was all crazy either. "I'm sorry, Devlin," she practically whispered, shaking her head again. "I know it sounds crazy. It is crazy. I just couldn't not ask, just to see. But if you really think it's not true and that it's nothing to worry about..." She trailed off, glancing up at him with something like hope in her expression.