Surely you must agree with me, Mr.Leddam ?" "It comes to this, then," Francis pronounced deliberately, "that you stage-managed the whole affair." Sir Timothy smiled.
"It is my belief, Mr.Ledsam," he said, "that you grow more and more intelligent every hour." Sir Timothy glanced presently at his thin gold watch and put it back in his pocket regretfully.
"Alas!" he sighed, "I fear that I must tear myself away.

I particularly want to hear the last act of 'Louise.' The new Frenchwoman sings, and my daughter is alone.

You will excuse me." Francis nodded silently.

His companion's careless words had brought a sudden dazzling vision into his mind.

Sir Timothy scrawled his name at the foot of his bill.
"It is one of my axioms in life, Mr.Ledsam," he continued, "that there is more pleasure to be derived from the society of one's enemies than one's friends.