"I was one of those present at the discussion of the preliminaries.

The confirmation of the agreed terms, with the signatures, has arrived, and is to be placed before the Labour Council at six o'clock this evening." The young man for a moment seemed puzzled.

Then he glanced at a little gold watch upon his wrist, knocked the cigarette from its holder and carefully replaced the latter in its case.
"That is very interesting, Countess," he said.

"For the moment I had forgotten your official position amongst the English Socialists." She leaned forward and touched his coat sleeve.
"You had forgotten nothing," she declared eagerly.

"There is something in your mind of which you have not spoken." "No," he replied, "I have spoken a great deal of my mind--too much, perhaps, considering that we are seated in this very fashionable lounge, with many people around us.