"Hardly. Might I trouble you to step into a cab with me and to come as far as Victoria police court?"
"It's very late, isn't it? I have an engagement at eleven close by here."
He was going to fetch Colonel Harris and Louisa at the Danish Legation and pilot them home to the Langham.
"It's an important matter, Mr. de Mountford," retorted the man. "Are you lodging anywhere near here?"
"In Exhibition Road, Kensington."
"Ah, close to Cromwell Road?"
"Then where shall it be, Mr. de Mountford?"
"Why not in the cab?" remarked Luke.
"Just as you like."