She could hardly have said a better thing, because it took Lady Cantourne some seconds to work out in her mind where the West Coast of Africa was.
"That is the unhealthy coast, is it not ?" asked her ladyship.
"Yes." Jocelyn hardly heard the question.

She was looking round with a sudden, breathless eagerness.

It was probable that Millicent Chyne was in the rooms; and she never doubted that she would know her face.
"And I suppose you know that part of the world very well ?" said Lady Cantourne, who had detected a change in her companion's manner.
"Oh yes." "Have you ever heard of a place called Loango ?" "Oh yes.

I live there." "Indeed, how very interesting! I am very much interested in Loango just now, I must tell you.

But I did not know that anybody lived there." "No one does by choice," explained Jocelyn.