"I will claim my reward when we meet again." He sauntered away, leaving them alone.

Jeanne turned at once towards her companion.
"I am sorry," she said, "if my sending for you was in any way an annoyance.

I understand, of course, you have made it quite clear to me, that our little friendship, or whatever you may choose to call it, is at an end.

But I do insist upon knowing what it was that you and my stepmother were discussing for nearly half an hour in the gardens of the Red Hall.

The truth, mind.