Have you settled upon a title ?" But the instinct of authorship now shielded Ronnie.
"I never talk of my books, excepting to Helen, until they are finished," he said.
"Quite right," agreed Aubrey, cordially.

"But you might tell me why this one took you to Central Africa.

Is it a book of travels ?" "No; it is a love-story.

But the scene is laid in wild places--ah, such places! One cannot possibly understand, until one gets there and does it, what it is like to leave civilisation behind, and crawl into long grass thirteen feet high!" "It sounds weirdly fascinating," remarked Aubrey.

"So unusual a setting, must mean a remarkable plot." "It is the strongest thing I have done yet," said Ronnie, with enthusiasm.
Aubrey smiled, surveying Ronnie's eager face with slow enjoyment.