Let us go over together everything that happened to you from the minute you took the letter-case from the Foreign Secretary up to the minute I came into this room." I obeyed, beginning at the very beginning and telling her all, except the part that had to do with Diana Forrest.

She had no concern in that.
I told her how I had slept with the green letter-case under my pillow, and had waked to feel and look for it once or twice an hour.

How when morning came I had been late in getting to the train: how I had struggled with the two men who tried to keep me out of the reserved compartment into which they were intruding.

How the man who had a right to it, after wishing to prevent my entering, helped me in the end, rather than be alone with the pair who had forced themselves upon him.
How he had stumbled almost into my arms in a panic, during the confusion after the false alarm on the boat's gangway.

How he had walked beside me and seemed on the point of speaking, later, in the Gare du Nord.