Or," she went on, with a little grimace, "that any other man would want to hold it." "It is possible," Wingate said deliberately, "that your husband may have further surprises of that nature in store for him." She laughed.

"Is that a threat ?" "If you like to regard it as such.

You will find out before long that I am a terribly persistent person." "I wonder," she remarked thoughtfully, "what could have made him so extraordinarily agreeable to you." "To tell you the truth, I was surprised," Wingate replied.

"And Peter Phipps, too! What can they want with me down at Throgmorton Street?
They can't imagine that they can hustle me into the market ?" "Henry was very much in earnest," she told him.
Wingate's face darkened for a moment.
"They couldn't suspect--No, that wouldn't be possible!" "Suspect what ?" "That my enmity to the B.& I.," he went on, in a low tone, "is beginning to take definite shape." "Just what do you mean by that ?" she asked.
"I have just the glimmerings of a scheme," he told her.

"It will be something entirely unexpected, and it will mean a certain amount of risk." "Don't forget that you have promised to let me help," she reminded him.
"If I strike," he said, "it will be at the directors.