"That was where we first met.

There could be no better place.

We can just go and tell your father what we have done and then go up into the hills." It was well done.

He spoke without wakening Sylvia's suspicions.

She had never understood the episode of the lighted window; she did not know that her father was Gabriel Strood, of whose exploits in the Alps she had read; she believed that all danger to Walter Hine was past.