It seems to me, however, that they gave you a jolly good dinner and got nothing in return." "They might very easily have carried me off too," I declared.
"Perhaps it would have been better if they had.

You'd at least have had the satisfaction of knowing what their little game really was!" "But the man and the woman who left the yacht an hour before she sailed, and who slipped away into the country somewhere! I wonder who they were?
Hornby distinctly told me that he and Chater were alone, and yet there was evidently a lady and a gentleman on board.

I guessed there was a woman there, from the way the boudoir and ladies' saloon were arranged, and certainly no man's hand decorated a dinner table as that was decorated." "Yes.

That's decidedly funny," remarked the Consul thoughtfully.

"They went to Colle Salvetti, you say?
They changed there, of course.
Expresses call there, one going north and the other south, within a quarter of an hour after the train arrives from Leghorn.