I come to discuss with you the young Englishman, Francis Norgate." She turned her head a little.

Her eyes were full of enquiry.
"To discuss him with me ?" Selingman's eyes as though by accident fell upon the roses and the note.
"Ah, well," she murmured, "go on." "It is wonderful," Selingman proceeded, "to be able to tell the truth.

I speak to you as one comrade to another.

This young man was your companion at the Cafe de Berlin.

For the indiscretion of behaving like a bull-headed but courageous young Englishman, he is practically dismissed from the Service.