"And why did you not come in?
You might have helped to protect Miss Smithers from the reporters." "I don't know," he answered confusedly.

"I did not like to; and, besides, a policeman thought I was a suspicious character and told me to move on." "Dear me, Mr.Meeson; you must have been having a good look at us." Here Augusta interposed, fearing least her admirer--for with an unerring instinct, she now guessed how matters stood--should say something foolish.

A young man who is capable of standing to stare at a house in Hanover-square is, she thought, evidently capable of anything.
"I was surprised to see you yesterday," she said.

"How did you know we were coming ?" Eustace told her that he had seen it in the _Globe_.

"I am sure you cannot have been so surprised as I was," he went on, "I had made sure that you were drowned.