"Your landlord very kindly said he would see to its being sent on." They were now close to the Villa du Lac.

"Of course, I shall expect you to lunch to-morrow," said Sylvia.

"Twelve o'clock is the time.

You'll want a good rest after your long day." And then Chester started off with his two strange companions.

How very unlike this evening had been to what he had pictured it would be! Years before, as a boy, he had spent a week at a primitive seaside hotel near Dieppe.