She sat up at once, and caught her breath, although he did not know it.

His smile distinctly upset her tranquillity.
"By the way," he added, as if dismissing the matter, "have you forgotten that on Tuesday we go to the Witch's hut in the hills?
Bobby has dingdonged it into me for days." "It will be good fun," she said.

Then, as a swift afterthought: "Be sure that the bodyguard is strong--and true.".