There is an elegance about the way these foreign women dress, a care for detail in their clothes and jewellery, and a carriage which one seldom finds here." They had reached the far end of the field, having turned their backs, in fact, upon the polo altogether.

Norgate suddenly abandoned their conversation.
"Look here," he said, in an altered tone, "do you feel inclined to answer a few questions ?" "For publication ?" Hebblethwaite asked drily.

"You haven't turned journalist, by any chance, have you ?" Norgate shook his head.

"Nevertheless," he admitted, "I have changed my profession.

The fact is that I have accepted a stipend of a thousand a year and have become a German spy." "Good luck to you!" exclaimed Hebblethwaite, laughing softly.