She rose to her feet with a transfiguring smile.
"How lucky I am," she exclaimed, "to have a witness to such a wonderful offer!" Wingate paused for a moment in his passage across the room.

His outstretched hand fell to his side.

The expression of eagerness with which he had approached Josephine disappeared from his face.

He confronted Phipps, who had also risen to his feet, as a right-living man should confront his enemy.

There was a second or two of tense silence, broken by Phipps, who was the first to recover himself.
"Welcome to London, Mr.Wingate," he said.