The thousand pounds, of course, is stolen." "So I gathered," she remarked.

"Do you continue, may I ask, to be Douglas Romilly, the manufacturer ?" He shook his head a little vaguely.
"I haven't thought," he confessed.

"But of course I don't.

I have risked everything for the chance of a new life.

I shall start it in a new way and under a new name." He was suddenly conscious of her pity, of a moistness in her eyes as she looked at him.
"I think," she said, "that you must have been very miserable.