"I stood quite close to you both while you were waiting for your taxi." The animation evoked by this call from a presumably new admirer, suddenly left her.

She became nervous and constrained.

She glanced again at his card.
"Don't tell me," she begged, "that you have come to ask me any questions about that night! I simply could not bear it.

The police have been here twice, and I had nothing to tell them, absolutely nothing." "Quite right," he assented soothingly.

"Police have such a clumsy way of expecting valuable information for nothing.