But he felt he could trust Jenny to manage him.

She was an astonishingly sane and sensible girl.
(III) He was at the further end of the terrace, close beneath the stable wall, when the stable clock struck the quarter for the second time.

That would make, he calculated, about seventeen minutes, and he turned reluctantly to keep his appointment.

But he was still thirty yards away from the opening when a white figure in a huge white hat came quickly out.

She beckoned to him with her head, and he followed her down the steps.