As by the girls' cabins, so before the Graham house, Lee perceived a motor car.

He brought his own machine to a stop near it and cut off his engine.

At the same instant the door opened in the house, where by the light shining through the portal he saw Louise's and Charlie Menocal's figures.

Menocal stepped forth.
"You will please go now," Louise was saying.

"When you telephoned I told you then that I shouldn't go with you, or go to the dance at all." Bryant had alighted and was arranging the blankets about Imogene.
Charlie's voice spoke, rather truculently: "I told you I was coming for you, didn't I?
Now see what a position that leaves me in! People think you're coming.