"What's the matter with you, Richard ?" "She isn't here," the young man declared.

"I've been to the Rooms and she isn't there either." "What about the Opera ?" Hunterleys asked.
"I started at the Opera," Lane confessed, "took a box so as to be able to see the whole house.

I sat through the first act but there wasn't a sign of her.

Then I took a spin out and had another look at the villa.
It was all lit up as though there were a party.

I very nearly marched in." "Just as well you didn't, I think," Hunterleys remarked, smiling.