But I have been busy." She was suddenly serious.

She clasped his arm with both her hands and turned towards the house.
"Of course you have," she sighed.

"It seems too bad, though, in Monte Carlo.

Sidney and David are like ghouls.

I don't ask what it is all about--I know better--but I wish it were all over, whatever it is." "Is Sidney back ?" Hunterleys asked eagerly.
She nodded.
"He came in half-an-hour ago, looking like a tramp.