But they would ask to be allowed to go first.
"Still," he resumed, "if you carry valuable jewellery about with you, it would be as well, I think, if you locked it up." "I have very little jewellery, and that not valuable," said Violet, and suddenly her face flushed and she looked across the table at Linforth with a smile.

The smile was returned, and a minute later the ladies rose.
The two men were left alone to smoke.
"You know Mrs.Oliver better than I do," said Ralston.

"I will tell you frankly what I think.

It may be a mere nothing.

There may be no cause for anxiety at all.