She even took a sort of secret joy in the dramatic values which that scene of play-acting presented to her.
"And do you ever go to New York ?" "Yes, such a thing might happen, any time." It was as well, she told herself, to leave the way well paved.
"_That's_ the city for you!" he declared, with a commending shake of the head.
Of the truth of that fact Frances Durkin was only too well aware; but this was a conviction to which she did not give utterance.
As they stood chatting together in the deserted hallway, a man, turning the corner, brushed by them.

He merely gave them one casual glance of inquiry, and then looked away, apparently at the room-numbers on the lintels.
The young woman chanced to be tapping half-carelessly, half-nervously, with her key on the panel of her door.

It meant nothing to her comrade, but to the passing man it resolved itself into an intelligible and coherent message.

For it was in Morse, and to his trained and adept ear it read: "This--is--Keenan--keep--away!".