Her expression was scarcely encouraging.
"I hope," she said, "that you will not be disappointed in your quarters." Hamel followed her slowly on to the platform, saw her escorted to a very handsome motor-car by an obsequious station-master, and watched the former disappear down the stretch of straight road which led to the hill.

Then, with a stick in one hand, and the handbag which was his sole luggage in the other, he left the station and turned seaward..