"I hope you'll get him; he might act as an antidote to some of these officers." They had run in under the shadow of the mountain and the keel grated on the shore.

Constance raised her eyes and studied the towering crag above their heads; when she lowered them again, her gaze for an instant met Tony's.

There was a new light in his eyes--amusement, triumph, something entirely baffling.

He gave her the intangible feeling of having at last got the mastery of the situation..