"You aren't so clever as I thought you were," she rallied him.

"I quite expected when I said I'd not been out, to hear you tell me just where I'd been, how far I walked and just what I bought." "Some green sewing silk, six handkerchiefs, and a tooth-brush," said Tarling promptly and the girl stared at him in comic dismay.
"Why, of course, I ought to have known you better than that," she said.
"Then you do have watchers ?" "Watchers and talkers," said Tarling gaily.

"I had a little interview with the gentleman in the vestibule of the hotel and he supplied me with quite a lot of information.

Did he shadow you ?" She shook her head.
"I saw nobody," she confessed, "though I looked most carefully.

Now what are you going to do with me, Mr.Tarling ?" For answer, Tarling took from his pocket a flat oblong box.