But I am grateful to you all the same." "Then we are friends ?" said Nap, quickly.
"Yes, we are friends; but it is very unlikely that we shall meet again.

I cannot invite you to call." "And you won't call either on my mother ?" he asked.
"I am afraid not." He was silent a moment.

Then, "So let it be!" he said.

"But I fancy we shall meet again notwithstanding.

So _au revoir_, Lady Carfax! Can you find your own way down ?" She understood in an instant the motive that prompted the question, and the impulse to express her appreciation of it would not be denied.