"But of course he is innocent.

Of course he'll be discharged without a blot upon his name.
They're tremendously in love with each other, almost as much as you and I!" "You didn't tell me about the love affair in your note," said Raoul.
"You spoke only of the girl, and the coincidence of her driving past your house, after I went in." "There wasn't time for more in that famous communication!" I laughed.
Raoul echoed me.

"It came rather too near being famous, by the way," he said.

"Just after I had found it in the safe--where you would put it, you witch!--a man came in with an order from the President to copy a clause in a new treaty which is kept there." "What treaty ?" I asked, with a leap of the heart.
"Oh, one between France, Japan and Russia.

But that isn't the point." (Ah, _was_ it not, if he had known ?) The thing is, it would have been rather awkward, wouldn't it?
if I hadn't got your note out of the safe before the man came in, as he never took his eyes off me, or out of the open safe, for a second." "Thank God I wasn't too late!" I stammered, before I could keep back the rushing words.