"It's the least expected that happens--what ?" Bryce replied that Sackville was no doubt right, and began to talk of other matters.

He hung about the club-house until past three o'clock, and then, being well acquainted with Mary Bewery's movements from long observation of them, set out to walk down towards Wrychester, leaving his bicycle behind him.

If he did not meet Mary on the way, he meant to go to the house.

Ransford would be out on his afternoon round of calls; Dick Bewery would be at school; he would find Mary alone.

And it was necessary that he should see her alone, and at once, for since morning an entirely new view of affairs had come to him, based on added knowledge, and he now saw a chance which he had never seen before.