Putting down the glass he backed toward the door.
"I trust you will not hesitate to call upon me if I can be of any use to you, ma'am--a message will bring me here without a moment's delay." He was rather disappointed that no allusion had been made to his recent activities.

He reasoned correctly that Betty was as yet in ignorance of the somewhat dangerous eminence he had achieved as the champion of law and order.

However, he reflected with satisfaction that Hannibal, in remaining, would admirably serve his ends.
Betty insisted that he should be driven home, and after faintly protesting, the judge gracefully yielded the point, and a few moments later rolled away from Belle Plain behind a pair of sleek-coated bays, with a negro in livery on the box.

He was conscious of a great sense of exaltation.

He felt that he should paralyze Mahaffy.