"Tell the man to call a hansom." They drove almost in silence through the Square to Pall Mall.

Brott leaped out onto the pavement directly the cab pulled up.
"I will wait here," Lady Carey said.

"I only want to know that Lucille is safe." He disappeared, and she sat forward in the cab drumming idly with her forefingers upon the apron.

In a few minutes he came back.

His appearance was quite sufficient.