We are in the midst of it, indeed." I hardly cared what she did, now.

Ivor had come to see Maxine de Renzie, and nothing else mattered very much.

I had no strength to insist that we should go.
"I wonder what the man in the shadow would do if he saw us ?" Lisa said.
Then she leaned out, on the side away from the hiding man, and softly told our chauffeur to go very slowly along the street.

This he did, but the man did not move.
"Stop before that house behind the wall with the creepers," directed Lisa, but I would not allow that.
"No, he shall not stop there!" I exclaimed.

"Lisa, I forbid it.