I dare say I shall see you to-morrow at tea-time.
The duchess is coming." "I will try to be there, Harry," he said, leaving the room.

As he drove back to his own house, he was conscious that the sense of terror he thought he had strangled had come back to him.

Lord Henry's casual questioning had made him lose his nerve for the moment, and he wanted his nerve still.

Things that were dangerous had to be destroyed.

He winced.