She may be lurking somewhere in the house, and she may appear when your back in turned.

Remember what you told me." Julian understood the allusion.

He made no reply.
"The people at the police station close by," pursued Lady Janet, "have instructions to send an experienced man, in plain clothes, to any address indicated on your card the moment they receive it.

That is what you told me.

For Grace's protection, I want your card before you leave us." It was impossible for Julian to mention the reasons which now forbade him to make use of his own precautions--in the very face of the emergency which they had been especially intended to meet.