It beats combination safes hollow.

It would have taken all Scotland Yard to have dragged this letter from the rack." "That is really--it ?" Catherine demanded breathlessly.
"It is the packet," he assured her, "which you handed to me for safe keeping at Maltenby." They drove almost in silence to the Bishop's house, where it had been arranged that Julian should spend the night.

The Bishop left the two together before the fire in his library, while he personally superintended the arrangement of a guest room.

Catherine came over and knelt by the side of Julian's chair.
"Shall I beg forgiveness for the past," she whispered, "or may I not talk of the future, the glorious future ?" "Is it to be glorious ?" he asked a little doubtfully.
"It can be made so," she answered with fervour, "by you more than by anybody else living.

I defy you--you, Paul Fiske--to impugn our scheme, our aims, the goal towards which we strive.