So Mr.
Delaine is still here ?" "Till to-morrow." "I am glad.

I shall like to assure him that his name was not mentioned--he was not involved at all!" Elizabeth's lip curled a little, but she said nothing.

During the preceding forty-eight hours there had been passages between herself and Delaine that she did not intend Anderson to know anything about.

In his finical repugnance to soiling his hands with matters so distasteful, Delaine had carried out the embassy which Anderson had perforce entrusted to him in such a manner as to rouse in Elizabeth a maximum of pride on her own account, and of indignation on Anderson's.

She was not even sorry for him any more; being, of course, therein a little unjust to him, as was natural to a high-spirited and warm-hearted woman.
Anderson, meanwhile, went off to knock at Philip's door, and Philip's sister was left behind to wonder nervously how Philip would behave and what he would say.