He turned to Elizabeth, who had remained silent during the brief colloquy.
"What do you think, Miss Dalstan ?" he asked.

"Don't you think that, under the circumstances, I ought to give information to the British police ?" She laughed at him quite good-naturedly, and yet in such a way that a less sensitive man than Mr.Raymond Greene might well have been conscious of the note of ridicule.
"No wonder you are such a great success in your profession!" she observed.

"You carry the melodramatic instinct with you, day by day.

You see everything through the dramatist's spectacles." "That's all very well," Mr.Greene protested, "but you saw the two men yourself, and you've probably read about the case of mysterious disappearance.

Surely you must admit that the coincidence is interesting ?" "Alas!" she went on, shaking her head, "I am afraid I must throw cold water upon your vivid imaginings.