You represent to them things beside which life and death are trivial happenings." Laverick laughed shortly.

He was a matter-of-fact man, and there seemed something a little absurd in such a warning.
"I do not think," he declared, "that you need have any fear.

London is, as you doubtless find it, a dull old city, but it is a remarkably safe one to live in." "Nevertheless, Mr.Laverick," she repeated earnestly, "be on your guard to-day, for all our sakes." He bowed and changed the subject.
"Your investments," he remarked, "you will be content, perhaps, to leave as they are.

It is, no doubt, of some interest to you to know that they are showing already a profit of considerably over a thousand pounds." She shrugged her shoulders.
"It was an excuse--that investment," she declared.

"Yet money is always good.