"Do you mean that he is in the house here, now ?" "He is in the dining room with Helen." Lessingham for a moment was thoughtful.
"Don't you think," he suggested, "that it would be better to keep us apart ?" "I was wondering," she confessed.
"Have you told him about my bringing the letters ?" She shook her head.
"We nearly did.

Then I stopped--I wasn't sure." "You were wise," he said.
"Are you wise ?" she asked him quickly.
"In coming back here ?" She nodded.
"Captain Griffiths knows everything," she reminded him.

"He is simply furious because your arrest was interfered with.

I really believe that he is dangerous." Lessingham was unmoved.
"I had to come back," he said simply.
"Why did you go away so suddenly ?" "Well, I had to do that, too," he replied, "only the governing causes were very different.

We will speak, if you do not mind, only of the cause which has brought me back.