Our father is dangerously ill--his lawyer has been sent for.

Come with me to London by the first train.

Meet at the junction." Without a word to any one of the three persons present, all silently looking at him, Geoffrey consulted his watch.

Anne had told him to wait half an hour, and to assume that she had gone if he failed to hear from her in that time.

The interval had passed--and no communication of any sort had reached him.