That leads up to the next point.

We must try to be cool and collected." She was quivering with suppressed emotion herself, as she said it, but her soothing hand still lay on Mrs.Mallet's.

"The next thing is--he would leave London." "But not by rail, you say ?" "He is an intelligent man, and in the course of defending others has thought about this matter.

Why expose himself to the needless risk and observation of a railway station?
No; I saw at once what he would do.

Beyond doubt, he would cycle.