In the end I wrote to no one.

I determined to go down alone, to shoot zealously from early in the morning till late at night, but to have no house-party at Feltham,--to invite a few of the neighbors, and to be free myself to depart for London any time, at a moment's notice.
It would come! somehow or other I felt sure of it.

I should receive a summons from her, and I must be prepared at any moment to come to her aid.
I went into the club after I had left Claridge's, and stayed playing bridge till unusually late.

It was early in the morning when I reached the Milan, and the hotel had that dimly lit, somewhat sepulchral appearance which seems to possess a large building at that hour in the morning.

As I stood for a moment inside the main doors, four men stepped out of the lift on my right, carrying a long wooden chest.
They slunk away into the shadows on tiptoe.