"You know from whom they come, of course.

Dick is my twin brother, and until the war we had scarcely ever been parted.

Miss Fairclough here is engaged to be married to him.

It is quite two months since we had a line, and I myself have been in London for the last three days, three very weary days, making enquiries everywhere." "I am very happy," he said, "to have brought you such good news." Once more the normal aspect of the situation began to reimpose itself upon the two women.

They remembered the locked door, the secrecy of their visitor's entrance, and his disordered condition.
"May I ask to whom we are indebted for this great service ?" Philippa enquired.
"My name for the present is Hamar Lessingham," was the suave reply.
"For the present ?" Philippa repeated.