She crossed to him at once.
"Robert," she said, "don't be in a hurry to go to-night.

I must have a word with Harold." "All right," said Pettifer, but he said it in so absent a voice that his wife doubted whether he had understood her words.

She was about to repeat them when Harold Hazlewood himself approached.
"You are looking at my new pamphlet, Pettifer, _The Prison Walls must Cast no Shadow_.

I am hoping that it will have a great influence." "No," replied Pettifer.

"I wasn't.