"Peter, no doubt, knew that you came to see us last night--Peter knows all that goes on in Scarhaven.

And he put things together, and decided that I might act as your cicerone over the Keep and the ruins, and so--there you are!" "Why should he object to my visiting the Keep ?" demanded Copplestone.
"That's obvious! He considers you a spy," replied Audrey.

"And--there may be reasons why he doesn't desire your presence in those ancient regions.
But--we'll go there, all the same, if you don't mind breaking rules and defying Peter." "Not I!" said Copplestone.

"Hang Peter!" "There are people who firmly believe that Peter Chatfield should have been hanged long since," she remarked quietly.

"I'm one of them.
Chatfield is a bad old man--thoroughly bad! But I'll circumvent him in this, anyhow.