9/47 But her first unguarded words on receiving him as he rose at her entrance into the darkened drawing-room changed that plan, too--changed it all so utterly, and so much for the better, that he almost smiled to think of the crudity of human combinations and inventions as compared to the masterly machinations of Fate. No need for him to complicate matters when here were pawns enough to play the game for him. No need for him to do anything except give them their initial velocity and let them tumble into one another and totter or fall. Leila said, laughingly: "Oh, you are too late, Howard. What in the world are you doing in town so suddenly ?" "A business telegram. |