Have you come direct from England ?" He shook his head.
"I came to-day from Bordighera." "More and more mysterious," she murmured.

"Bordighera, indeed! I thought you once told me that you hated the Riviera." "So I do," he agreed.
"And yet you are here ?" "Yet I am here." "And you have not come to look after me," she went on, "and the mystery of the little brown man who watches me is still unexplained." "I know nothing about that person," he asserted, "and I had no idea that you were here." "Or you would not have come ?" she challenged him.
"Your presence," he retorted, nettled into forgetting himself for a moment, "would not have altered my plans in the slightest." "Then you have a reason for coming!" she exclaimed quickly.
He gave no sign of annoyance but his lips were firmly closed.

She watched him steadfastly.
"I wonder at myself no longer," she continued.

"I do not think that any woman in the world could ever live with a man to whom secrecy is as great a necessity as the very air he breathes.

No wonder, my dear Henry, the politicians speak so well of you, and so confidently of your brilliant future!" "I am not aware," he observed calmly, "that I have ever been unduly secretive so far as you are concerned.