"Can't you ask me what you want to, now, as we go along ?" "We have already arrived," Quest told her.

"Do you mind following me ?" She crossed the pavement and passed through the front door, which Quest was holding open for her.

They stepped into the little elevator, and a moment or two later Lenora was installed in an easy-chair in Quest's sitting-room, in front of a roaring fire.
"Lean back and make yourself comfortable," Quest invited, as he took a chair opposite to her.

"I must just look through these papers." The girl did as she was told.

She opened her coat.