"He will rejoin me here directly it is settled." "And in the meantime," I said thoughtfully, "you are left in a strange hotel without friends, without a chaperon, absolutely unprotected, and with only a head-waiter in your confidence.

Felicia, there is something very wrong here.

I am not sure," I continued, "that it is not my duty to run away with you." She clasped her hands.
"Delightful!" she murmured.

"But I mustn't think of it," she added, with a sudden gravity, "nor must you talk to me like that.

What my uncle says is best to be done.