It was to be presumed that he had deliberately chosen to cross the threshold, knowing that a recognition was inevitable.

Karl Steinmetz went farther.

He suspected that De Chauxville had come to the Talleyrand Club, having heard that he was in England, with the purpose in view of seeking him out and warning him against Mrs.Sydney Bamborough.
"It would appear," murmured the stout philosopher, "that we are about to work together for the first time.

But if there is one thing that I dislike more than the enmity of Claude de Chauxville it is his friendship.".