"She'll get suspicious at once if you do.

Try and make friends with her.

This thing may drag on for a week or so." Littleson nodded and left them soon afterwards.

He went to his rooms, changed into calling attire, and before four o'clock his automobile was outside the mansion in Fifth Avenue, and he himself waiting in the drawing-room for Virginia.

She came to him with very little delay, and welcomed him quite naturally.
"I am afraid," he said, "that you must look upon callers as rather a nuisance just now, but we are all very anxious about your uncle, and I thought I would like to hear something more than that little bulletin outside tells us." She motioned him to sit down.
"You are very kind," she said.