It was an unpleasant surprise to me that her sharp eyes had detected the secret spy upon her movements; and the dry, sardonic tone of her remark pained me, too, recalling, as it did, the frigid self-possession that had so repelled me in the early days of our acquaintance.

And yet I could not but admire the cool unconcern with which she faced her horrible peril.
"Tell me a little more about this conference," she said, as we walked down Fetter Lane.

"Your note was rather more concise than lucid; but I suppose you wrote it in a hurry." "Yes, I did.

And I can't give you any details now.

All I know is that Doctor Norbury has had a letter from a friend of his in Berlin, an Egyptologist, as I understand, named Lederbogen, who refers to an English acquaintance of his and Norbury's whom he saw in Vienna about a year ago.