Have you seen him this morning ?" "Oh, yes." "Well, what do you think about it ?" "I think," said Ursula, "that the best thing I can do is to take him away with me for a rest as soon as possible.

He's at the end of his tether." "You seem to take it pretty calmly." "How do you expect us to take it, my dear Frank ?" she asked.

"We always expected Paul to do the right thing when the time came, and we consider that he has done it." The Chief Whip smoothed a perplexed brow.

"I don't quite follow.

Were you, vulgarly speaking, in the know all the time ?" "Sit down, and I'll tell you." So he sat down and Miss Winwood quietly told him all she knew about Paul and what had happened during the past few weeks, while the Colonel sat by his desk and tugged his long moustache and here and there supplemented her narrative.
"That's all very interesting," Ayres remarked when she had finished, "and you two have acted like bricks.