Then he showed Richard how the cushion could be inflated in a few seconds with an air-pump; and how, being inflated, an automatic valve closed and kept the air prisoner.

"A tidy arrangement, take my word, and does that Russian party credit!" "What will he do with it ?" asked Richard.
"Put the question later," responded Inspector Val, who was a slave to the dramatic and never turned loose his climaxes prematurely.
The San Reve was of a nature too easily the prey of somber suspicions to ever find perfect happiness.

Besides she had been saddened, if not soured, by the rougher, harder visitations of life.

As nearly as she might be, however, these days the San Reve was happy.

And peace came to her more and more as spring deepened into May.