Afterwards we can continue the discussion.

In the meanwhile I'll order up some of the '89 Pol Roger so that we can drink to the success of the book." "The '89 Pol Roger ?" cried Adrian.

"A man with '89 Pol Roger in his cellar is the noblest work of God!" "I was thinking," Barbara remarked drily, "of asking Doria to spend a few days here next week." "All I can say is," he retorted, with his quick turn and smile, "that you are the Divinity Itself." So, a short time afterwards, a very happy Adrian sat down to dinner and brought a cultivated taste to the appreciation of a now, alas! historical wine, under whose influence he expanded and told us of the genesis and the making of "The Diamond Gate." Now it is a very odd coincidence, one however which had little, if anything, to do with the curious entanglement of my friend's affairs into which I was afterwards drawn, but an odd coincidence all the same, that on passing from the dining room with Adrian to join Barbara in the drawing room, I found among the last post letters lying on the hall table one which, with a thrill of pleasure, I held up before Adrian's eyes.
"Do you recognise the handwriting ?" "Good Lord!" cried he.

"It's from Jaffery Chayne.

And"-- he scanned the stamp and postmark--"from Cettinje.