But that I will discuss with him.

You could give me no address, so I have not yet been able to communicate with him." Again Elizabeth's eyebrows went up.

She rose.
"Of course you will do what you think best.

Shall we go back to the hotel ?" They walked along in silence.

He saw that she was excited, and that he had completely missed his stroke; but he did not see how to mend the situation.
"Oh! there is Philip, going to fish," said Elizabeth at last, as though nothing had happened.