"Do you know that he is expected here to-day?
Don't stand there behind me--it's so hard to talk to you.
Come and sit down." He obeyed--but she had not quite satisfied him yet.

His face had not lost its expression of anxiety and surprise.

She persisted in playing her part, determined to set at rest in him any possible suspicion that she had reasons of her own for being afraid of Julian Gray.

"Tell me about this famous man of yours," she said, putting her arm familiarly through his arm.

"What is he like ?" The caressing action and the easy tone had their effect on Horace.