It's all right.' He nodded to Lady Maud as he spoke the last words, but he did not seem inclined to say more.
'Is it a secret ?' she asked.
'I never have secrets,' answered the millionaire.

'Secrets are everything that must be found out and put in the paper right away, ain't they?
But I had no trouble at all, only the bother of waiting till the office got an answer from the other side.

I happened to remember where I'd spent the evening of the explosion, that's all, and they cabled sharp and found my statement correct.' 'Why did you never tell me ?' asked Lady Maud reproachfully.

'You knew how anxious I was!' 'Well,' replied Mr.Van Torp, dwelling long on the syllable, 'I did tell you it was all right anyhow, whatever they did, and I thought maybe you'd accept the statement.

The man I spent that evening with is a public man, and he mightn't exactly think our interview was anybody else's business, might he ?' 'And you say you never keep a secret!' The delicious ripple was in Lady Maud's sweet voice as she spoke.
Perhaps it came a little in spite of herself, and she would certainly have controlled her tone if she had thought of Leven just then.