I can't." They had paused where a group of trees threw a blot of shadow across the moonlit road.
"You mean she was killing herself ?" he asked.
"Quite cleverly.

So as to avoid all danger of after discovery: that might have hurt us," she answered.
They walked in silence, and coming to a road that led back into the town, he turned down it.

She had the feeling she was following him without his knowing it.

A cab was standing outside the gate of a house, having just discharged its fare.

He seemed to have suddenly recollected her.
"Do you mind ?" he said.