I made an affirmative gesture and was rewarded with a smile which set my blood to rushing.

I made little out of the last act.

I could not dream what the anonymous note had behind it.

I suspicioned an intrigue, but what use had she for me, an American, a very nobody?
Something unusual was about to take place and I was to be a witness or a participant of it.

That was as far as my talent for logical deduction went.