Accordingly I held my peace.

I am sorry for it now." "And Mr.Drew Foster ?" "Had left the Savoy Hotel when I reached there," Ray said drily, "and had omitted to leave an address." "You might have trusted me," I remarked, thoughtfully.
"If I had known you as well then as I do now," Ray answered, "I would have risked it." Then as we sat in silence there came a low tapping at the door.

Ray looked at me keenly.
"Who visits you at this hour ?" he asked.
"We will see," I answered.
I had meant to be careful whom I admitted, but I had scarcely withdrawn the latch when the door was pushed open, and a slim, thickly-cloaked figure glided past me into the room.

I knew her by the supple swiftness of her movements.

Ray sat still, and smoked with the face of a Sphinx.
I think that at first she did not see him.