After the service of the soup they were alone.

He leaned a little across the table.
"Ronnie," he said, "I thought it was better to ask you here than to have you down at the city." Granet nodded.
"This seems all right," he admitted, glancing around.

"Well, one part of the great work is finished.

I have lived for eleven days not quite sure when I wasn't going to be stood up with my back to the light at the Tower.

Now it's over." "You've seen Pailleton ?" "Seen him, impressed him, given him the document.