You have exceptional and rather dangerous gifts." "Don't go too far," Sylvia warned him.

"But I'd better understand the situation.

How long do you expect me to be amiable to the man ?" "Only for a couple of days.

He might come down again, but that's not certain." Sylvia considered, for she saw what Herbert required.

She was to exert her powers of fascination upon the visitor, in order to make him more pliable in his host's hands.