18/28 "I do not understand!" "There are probably many other considerations in connection with the affair which you do not understand," he observed. "However--they had their opportunity. I walked the streets openly, I travelled to New York openly, I took my steamer ticket to England under my own name. The papers, I believe, chronicled every stage of my journey." "It was disgraceful!" she declared. "The people in office over there are cowards." "Not at all," he objected. |