As she raised it to her lips, the man who stood still upon the threshold of the restaurant looked into her face.

Slowly, as though his quest were over, he came down the room.
"Go away," she said to Tavernake.

"Go away, please.

He is coming to speak to me.

I want to be alone with him." Strangely enough, at that moment Tavernake saw nothing out of the common in her request.