"Now you mention it, of course I remember him! If he has written you to be civil to us, you can do it best by minding your own business.

In a fortnight's time I shall be free to entertain or to be entertained.

At present I am on a secret mission, and I do not wish my work to be interfered with." I moved toward the door.
"I have said all that I wish to say," I remarked.

"If I hear nothing from you I shall come back to London in fourteen days." "You will find me with my niece," Delora said, "and we shall be happy to see you." I left him there, feeling somehow or other that I had not had the best of our interview.

Yet my position from the first was hopeless.