He had just arrived.

He was quite certain that we ought to open it, so we did." "We ?" A note of regret in his voice made her ask anxiously: "Was I wrong ?" Hillyard hastened to reassure her.
"Not a bit.

Of course you were quite right, and I am very grateful." Joan's face cleared again.
"You see, I thought that if it was important I could bring it over and drive you back again." "Will you ?" Hillyard asked eagerly.

"But now you are here you ought to stay." Joan would not hear of the proposal, and Hillyard himself was in a fever to be off.

They found Sir Chichester and his wife in the paddock, and Hillyard wished his hosts good-bye.