She moved away from the window and stood by the fireplace.
Fielding crossed to her.

'Drake gave me one other piece of advice,' he said hesitatingly,--'not about business.

It concerned me and just one other person.' He pitched the remark in an interrogative key.
Mrs.Willoughby glanced quickly towards him with just the hint of a smile dimpling about the corners of her lips.

Fielding found it very difficult to go on, but there was one clear, definite, immediate thing for him to do as well, he said.

'Before I act on it there is something I ought to tell you.' He paused for a second, and the trouble in his voice perplexed Mrs.Willoughby.