One of them acted on his own initiative, or you would never have crossed the frontier." "I rather wondered why they let me out," she observed.

"Perhaps you can explain why Frau Essendorf keeps on writing to me under my pseudonym of 'Miss Brown' and to my reputed address in Lincolnshire, begging me to return." "I could tell you that, too," he replied.

"They want you back in Berlin." "They really do know, then, that I brought over the dispatch from Atcheson ?" she asked.
"They know it," he assured her.

"They know, too, that it was chiefly a wasted labour.

Their London agents saw to that." "Perhaps," she suggested, "you know who their London agents are ?" "Sooner or later in our conversation," he remarked, "we were bound to arrive at a point--" "Come along and let us make up a set then," she intervened..