You perhaps remember that I gave you a hint of it the other day at Frascati." "Has it been hanging fire all this time?
Explode! I promise not to stop my ears." "It relates to my friend Hudson." And Rowland paused.

She was looking at him expectantly; her face gave no sign.

"I am rather disturbed in mind about him.

He seems to me at times to be in an unpromising way." He paused again, but Christina said nothing.

"The case is simply this," he went on.