I ordered something cold from the sideboard within sight, and a bottle of wine which was opened before me.

There scarcely remained any doubt in my mind now but that some part of Delora's business, at any rate, in this country, was criminal.

Louis' manner, his emphatic stipulation, made it a matter of certainty.

Again I found myself confronted by the torturing thought that if this were so Felicia could scarcely be altogether innocent.
Once when Louis passed me I stopped him.
"Louis," I said, "let me ask you this.

Presuming things remain as they are, and I act independently, do you intend to prevent my seeing Miss Delora ?" "It is nothing to do with me," Louis lied.