I looked at my watch, pretended to be surprised, and said I must go at once.

I couldn't bear to waste a second in hurrying the treaty off, so that it might the more quickly be on its way back.

I hadn't come to visit Raoul in my own carriage, but in a cab, which was waiting.

As Raoul was taking me to it, Count Godensky got out of a motor-brougham, and saw me.

If only it had been anywhere except in front of the Foreign Office! I told myself there was no reason why he should guess that anything was wrong, but I was in such a state of nerves that, as he raised his hat, and his eyebrows, I fancied that he imagined all sorts of things, and I felt myself grow red and pale.