With the clearing of her vision the sweep of peril had extended, and she saw that the post of danger was no longer at Dorset's side.
"If you won't go back, I must--don't make me leave you!" she urged.
But he remained mutely resistant, and she added: "What are you going to do?
You really can't sit here all night." "I can go to an hotel.

I can telegraph my lawyers." He sat up, roused by a new thought.

"By Jove, Selden's at Nice--I'll send for Selden!" Lily, at this, reseated herself with a cry of alarm.

"No, no, NO!" she protested.
He swung round on her distrustfully.

"Why not Selden?
He's a lawyer isn't he?
One will do as well as another in a case like this." "As badly as another, you mean.