I shall be very happy if it's of any use, for I'm always puzzling my brain to find something you may like.' 'Thanks very much.

It's the thought I care for.' She laid the seal on the table beside her empty cup.

'And now that we are alone,' she went on, 'please tell me.' 'What ?' 'How you found out what you told me at dinner last night.' She leant back in the chair, raising her arms and joining her hands above her head against the high top of the chair, and stretching herself a little.

The attitude threw the curving lines of her figure into high relief, and was careless enough, but the tone in which she spoke was almost one of command, and there was a sort of expectant resentfulness in her eyes as they watched his face while she waited for his answer.

She believed that he had paid to have her watched by some one who had bribed her servants.
'I did not find out anything,' he said quietly.