Still, he didn't come from London by either of the evening trains, and it seems that you didn't take his rooms for him until about seven o'clock, before which time he hadn't been to the hotel.

So, you see, one is driven to wonder how the mischief he did get here." "I took his rooms ?" Philippa repeated, with a sudden little catch at her heart.
"Some one from here rang up, didn't they ?" Sir Henry went on carelessly.
"I gathered that we were introducing him at the hotel." "Where did you hear that ?" she demanded.
He shrugged his shoulders, but avoided answering the question.
"I have no doubt," he continued, "that the whole subject of Mr.Hamar Lessingham is scarcely worth discussing.

Yet he does seem to have arrived here under a little halo of coincidence." "I am afraid I have scarcely appreciated that," Philippa remarked; "in fact, his coming here has seemed to me the most ordinary thing in the world.

After all, although one scarcely remembers that since the war, this is a health resort, and the man has been ill." "Quite right," Sir Henry agreed.

"You are not going to bed, dear ?" Philippa had folded up her work.