"Apart from anything which Dick might do, you are in terrible danger here, all the more if you really have accomplished something.

Why not go now, at this moment?
Why wait?
These few hours may make all the difference." He smiled.
"They may, indeed, make all the difference to my life," he answered.
"That is for you." He followed Mills, who had obeyed her summons, out of the room.

Philippa moved to the window and watched him until he had disappeared.

Then very slowly she left the room, walked up the stairs, made her way to her own little suite of apartments, and locked the door..