'And yet to what end?
He cannot think to pass the night there!' 'If it were only possible to pay no heed!' said Mr.Romaine.

'But this is the accursed drawback of your position.

We can do nothing openly.

I must smuggle you out of this room and out of this house like seizable goods; and how am I to set about it with a sentinel planted at your very door ?' 'There is no good in being agitated,' said I.
'None at all,' he acquiesced.

'And, come to think of it, it is droll enough that I should have been that very moment commenting on your personal appearance, when your cousin came upon this mission.