those who believed him to be poxed were divided as to how he had achieved that condition , half of them convinced that he had got it from some whore , and a good many of the rest speculating that he had got it from poor lizzie , whose reputation suffered terribly-until ian , jamie , the beardsley twins , and even roger took to defending her honor with their fists , at which point people did not , of course , stop talking-but stopped talking where any of her champions might hear directly .