Our choice is more limited than you might think.

At least fifty names were proposed, all of them of young men of the highest character.

Each one, however, had some possibly doubtful relative or association or custom in life.

It is evident that there is treachery somewhere in the very highest quarters.
These young men were sure to be brought into contact with it.

Now it was Ray's idea to seek for some one wholly outside the diplomatic world, living in a spot remote from London, with as few friends as possible, who would have no sentimental objections to the surveillance of detectives.