"Well, quite already in Chad's hands, it would seem." And he had had with this another thought.

"Will that be--just all through Bilham--the way he's going to work it?
It would be, for him, you know, an idea.

And Chad with an idea--!" "Well ?" she asked while the image held him.
"Well, is Chad--what shall I say ?--monstrous ?" "Oh as much as you like! But the idea you speak of," she said, "won't have been his best.

He'll have a better.

It won't be all through little Bilham that he'll work it." This already sounded almost like a hope destroyed.