"Tell me what you are doing here ?" "I was bored with Paris," the young man answered.

"My friends were all coming here.

I had no idea that we were likely to meet." Maraton looked at him thoughtfully.

As they stood face to face at that moment, there was a certain strange likeness between them, a likeness of the husk only.
"I do not wish to interfere with your movements," Maraton said calmly.
"Where you are is nothing to me.

I proposed that you should remain away from London simply because I fancied that it would be easier for you to observe the conditions which exist between us.