"The money you must be spending to think it cheap! But I must be out of it--to the naked eye." He looked for a moment as if she were really failing him.

"Then you won't meet them ?" It was almost as if she had developed an unexpected personal prudence.
She hesitated.

"Who are they--first ?" "Why little Bilham to begin with." He kept back for the moment Miss Barrace.

"And Chad--when he comes--you must absolutely see." "When then does he come ?" "When Bilham has had time to write him, and hear from him about me.
Bilham, however," he pursued, "will report favourably--favourably for Chad.

That will make him not afraid to come.