He tried it gently.

Yes, it was.
And Zara heard him from her side, and stiffened in her bed with all the expression of a fierce wolfhound putting its hackles up.
Yes, the danger of the ways of men was not over! If she had not unconsciously remembered to lock the door when she had returned from her terrifying adventure he would have come in! So these two thrilled with different emotions and trembled, and there was the locked harrier between them.

And then Tristram rang for his valet and ordered his bath.

He would dress quickly, and ask casually if she would breakfast in the sitting-room.

It was so late, almost eleven, and they could have it at twelve upstairs--not in the restaurant as he had yesterday intended.