To be frank with you, you do not seem to me the sort of person likely to visit a bachelor such as Mr.Barnes, in a bachelor flat, at this hour, without some serious object." She kept silence for several moments.

Her bosom was rising and falling quickly, and a brilliant spot of colour was burning in her cheeks.

Her head was thrown a little back, she was regarding him with an intentness which he found almost disconcerting.

He had an uncomfortable sense that he was in the presence of a human being who, if it had lain in her power, would have killed him where he stood.

Further, he was realizing that the woman whom at first glance he had pronounced beautiful, was absolutely the first of her sex whom he had ever seen who satisfied completely the demands of a somewhat critical and highly cultivated taste.