"A very great pleasure! I recognised you both quite easily, you see, from your descriptions." "From our descriptions ?" Philippa repeated.
The newcomer bowed.
"The descriptions, glowing, indeed, but by no means exaggerated, of your brother Richard, Lady Cranston, and your fiance, Miss Fairclough." "Richard ?" Philippa almost shrieked.
"You have seen Dick ?" Helen gasped.
The intruder dived in his pockets and produced two sealed envelopes.

He handed one each simultaneously to Helen and to Philippa.
"My letters of introduction," he explained, with a little sigh of relief.

"I trust that during their perusal you will invite me to have some tea.

I am almost starving." The two women hastened towards the lamp.
"One moment, I beg," their visitor interposed.

"I have established, I trust, my credentials.