Then the beads suggest a carefully prepared plan, and, as I said just now, she can hardly have been made-up when she met us in Kennington Lane.

From all of which it seems likely that her present abode is not very far from Sloane Square." "At any rate," said I, "it was taking a considerable risk.

I might have left the theatre before she came back." "Yes," Thorndyke agreed.

"But it is like a woman to take chances.

A man would probably have stuck to you when once he had got you off your guard.