"Then where is M. de Fontelles going?"
Fontelles took the reply for himself.
"I am going to seek a gentleman with whom I have business," said he.
"You have none with my Lord Carford?"
"What I have with him will wait."
"He desires it should wait?" she asked in a quick tone.
"Yes, madame."
"I'd have sworn it," said Barbara Quinton.
"But with Mr Simon Dale——"
"With Simon Dale? What concern have you with Simon Dale?"