"He seemed strangely agitated for a moment or two, Genevra, and then he laughed--yes, laughed in my face, although it was such a long way off.

People can do what they like over the telephone, my dear.

I asked him if he was ill, or had been hurt.

He said he never felt better in his life and hadn't a scratch.

He laughed--I suppose to show me that he was all right.