The thing has been done before by torchlight--and neatly.' 'Come along, and come alone,' said Redworth.
A way was cleared for them.

Sir Lukin hurried up to Redworth, who had no doubt of his ability to manage Mr.Sullivan Smith.
He managed that fine-hearted but purely sensational fellow so well that Lady Dunstane and Diana, after hearing in some anxiety of the hubbub below, beheld them entering the long saloon amicably, with the nods and looks of gentlemen quietly accordant.
A little later, Lady Dunstane questioned Redworth, and he smoothed her apprehensions, delivering himself, much to her comfort, thus: 'In no case would any lady's name have been raised.

The whole affair was nonsensical.

He's a capital fellow of a kind, capable of behaving like a man of the world and a gentleman.

Only he has, or thinks he has, like lots of his countrymen, a raw wound--something that itches to be grazed.
Champagne on that!...