It was a mood that took such clear-eyed account of the conditions of human life that he was not disturbed in the least by the gliding presence of a taxicab, and without agitation he perceived that Katharine was conscious of it also, and turned her head in that direction.

Their halting steps acknowledged the desirability of engaging the cab; and they stopped simultaneously, and signed to it.
"Then you will let me know your decision as soon as you can ?" he asked, with his hand on the door.
She hesitated for a moment.

She could not immediately recall what the question was that she had to decide.
"I will write," she said vaguely.

"No," she added, in a second, bethinking her of the difficulties of writing anything decided upon a question to which she had paid no attention, "I don't see how to manage it." She stood looking at Denham, considering and hesitating, with her foot upon the step.

He guessed her difficulties; he knew in a second that she had heard nothing; he knew everything that she felt.
"There's only one place to discuss things satisfactorily that I know of," he said quickly; "that's Kew." "Kew ?" "Kew," he repeated, with immense decision.