A delay will follow which may or may not be favourable to you.

I am inclined to think now that it will redound to your interests.

You are ready to swear to the sleigh you speak of; that you saw it leave the club-house grounds and turn north ?" "Quite ready; but you must not ask me to describe or in any way to identify its occupant.

I saw nothing but the hat and coat I have told you about.

It was just before the moon went under a cloud, or I could not have seen that much." Is it so hard to preserve a natural aspect in telling or suggesting a lie that Charles's look should change as I uttered the last sentence?
I do not easily flush, and since my self-control had been called upon by the dreadful experiences of the last few days, I had learned to conceal all other manifestations of feeling except under some exceptional shock.