"I suppose I'd better not come and see you again ?" "I'm afraid you mustn't, Jack.

You've been here two hours already." "I shall be in my rooms in the afternoon.

If anything goes wrong, send your carriage down the street and have it stopped at the grocer's.

I shall take that for a sign." The signorina agreed, and we parted tenderly.

My last words were: "You'll send that message to Whittingham at once ?" "This moment," she said, as she waved me a kiss from the door of the room..