Why not come out and dine with me at the Hans Crescent Hotel?
Close by.

I'll get a quiet table and we can finish our talk there.

To-morrow I must go down to Margate to see the dear old mater, and it may be a week before I'm up again." They adjourn to the hostelry mentioned.
Over coffee and cigarettes, Vivie makes this appeal to Frank: "Now Frank, you know all my story.

Tell me first, what really became of the real David Williams, the young man you met in the hospital and wrote to me about ?" _Frank_: "'Pon my life I don't know.

I never heard one word about him after I got clear of the hospital myself.