"Now we have both looked out of window," she said to the lawyer, in her own inimitably impudent way, "suppose we compare our impressions." This was easily done.

They had both seen the same two men walking backward and forward, opposite the front gate of the cottage.

Before the advancing fog made it impossible to identify him, Mr.Sarrazin had recognized in one of the men his agreeable fellow-traveler on the journey from London.

The other man--a stranger--was in all probability an assistant spy obtained in the neighborhood.

This discovery suggested serious embarrassment in the future.