12/17 There is nothing you can tell him about me which he does not know. It is just a matter of hours, the toss of a coin, whether I get away or not." "They've found you out, then ?" Richard exclaimed. "Your Commandant here is at the present moment in London for the sole purpose of denouncing me." "And yet you remain here, paying afternoon calls ?" Richard observed incredulously. "I'm hanged if I can see through this!" "You see," Lessingham explained gently. "I am a fatalist!" It was Helen who finally led her lover from the room. |