My sigh of relief bespoke my feelings and I longed to take his hand, but the moment had not yet come.
Something was wanting to a perfect confidence between us, and I was in too sensitive a frame of mind to risk the slightest rebuff.
He was ready to speak before I was.

"Then, you had not been long on the scene of crime when the police arrived ?" "I had been in the room but a few minutes.

I do not know how long I was searching the house." "The police say that fully twenty minutes elapsed between the time they received Miss Cumberland's appeal for help and their arrival at the club-house.

If you were there that long--" "I cannot say.

Moments are hours at such a crisis--I--" My emotions were too much for me, and I confusedly stopped.