That is something gained, at any rate.

Now we will take a taxicab to Holborn and I will show you something really humorous." At the entrance to the town hall, the two men, at Seaman's instigation, parted, making their way inside by different doors.

Dominey found a retired seat under a balcony, where he was unlikely to be recognised from the platform.

Seaman, on the other hand, took up a more prominent position at the end of one of the front rows of benches.

The meeting was by no means overcrowded, over-enthusiastic, over-anything.