In the end I think she married him." "You believe the sweet was drugged ?" I asked.
She nodded.

"There was something very strange in it.

It was a night or two after I had tasted it that I had what just now I called my awakening, and began to think about Africa." "Have you ever seen these men again, Miss Holmes ?" "No, never." At this moment I heard Lady Longden say, in a severe voice: "My dear Luna, I am sorry to interrupt your absorbing conversation, but we are all waiting for you." So they were, for to my horror I saw that everyone was standing up except ourselves.
Miss Holmes departed in a hurry, while Scroope whispered in my ear with a snigger: "I say, Allan, if you carry on like that with his young lady, his lordship will be growing jealous of you." "Don't be a fool," I said sharply.

But there was something in his remark, for as Lord Ragnall passed on his way to the other end of the table, he said in a low voice and with rather a forced smile: "Well, Quatermain, I hope your dinner has not been as dull as mine, although your appetite seemed so poor." Then I reflected that I could not remember having eaten a thing since the first entree.

So overcome was I that, rejecting all Scroope's attempts at conversation, I sat silent, drinking port and filling up with dates, until not long afterwards we went into the drawing-room, where I sat down as far from Miss Holmes as possible, and looked at a book of views of Jerusalem.
While I was thus engaged, Lord Ragnall, pitying my lonely condition, or being instigated thereto by Miss Holmes, I know not which, came up and began to chat with me about African big-game shooting.