Why should he be watched by detectives ?" She shook her head.
"I suppose it is because we are foreigners," she said, "but ever since my uncle fetched me from Bordeaux we seem to have been watched by some one wherever we go." "You will not suffer much from that sort of thing over here," I remarked cheerfully.

"England is not a police-ridden country like Germany, or even France." "I know," she answered, "and yet I have told you before how I feel about arriving in England.

There seems something unfriendly in the very atmosphere, something which depresses me, which makes me feel as though there were evil times coming." I laughed reassuringly.
"You are giving way to fancies," I said.

"I am sure that London is doing its best for you.

See, the rain is all over.