When she recognized him, her smile was heavenly.
"Oh, how nice of you!" she exclaimed, stepping at once into his taxicab.

"You don't know how different it feels to hope that there is some one waiting for you and then to find your hope come true.
To-night I was not sure.

You had said nothing about it, and yet I could not help believing that you would be here." "I was hoping," he said, "that we might have another supper together.
Unfortunately, I have an engagement." "An engagement ?" she repeated, her face falling.
Laverick loved the truth and he seldom hesitated to tell it.
"It is rather an odd thing," he declared.

"You remember that woman at Luigi's last night--Mademoiselle Idiale ?" "Of course." "She came to my office to-day and gave me six thousand pounds to invest for her.

She made me take her out and show her where the murder was committed, and asked a great many questions about it.
Then she insisted that I should go and hear her sing this evening, and I find that I was expected to take her on to supper afterwards.
I excused myself for a little while, but I have promised to go to Luigi's, where she will be." The girl was silent for a moment.
"Where are we going now, then ?" she asked.
"Wherever you like.