I will." He hurried from the room.
Sir Charles rushed after him, and overtook him at the foot of the stairs.
"Where are you going?
What do you want to do ?" "I will follow the train and catch it at the next station.

I can do it on my bicycle." "Nonsense! you're mad.

They have thirty-five minutes start; and the train travels forty-five miles an hour." Erskine sat down on the stairs and gazed blankly at the opposite wall.
"You must have mistaken him," said Sir Charles.

"He told me to tell you that he had not forgotten his promise, and that you may rely on him." "What is the matter ?" said Agatha, coming down, followed by Lady Brandon.
"Miss Wylie," said Erskine, springing up, "he gave me his word that he would not go by that train when I told him Miss Lindsay was going by it.

He has broken his word and seized the opportunity I was mad and credulous enough to tell him of.