And on the way to Liverpool she thought often of Armitage's last words.

"I rather expect him here, or I should be leaving to-day myself," he had said.
She was not sure whether, if it had not been for those words, she would have thought of him again at all.

She remembered him as he stood framed in the carriage door--his gravity, his fine ease, the impression he gave of great physical strength, and of resources of character and courage.
And so Shirley Claiborne left Geneva, not knowing the curious web that fate had woven for her, nor how those last words spoken by Armitage at the carriage door were to link her to strange adventures at the very threshold of her American home..