"No. But there's my card. You can telegraph to that address this evening, and I'll send you a cheque."
"Very good, sir."
A minute later we were walking along the road towards Highlands and, while Jill was talking excitedly, I was considering my own recklessness.
As we entered the grounds—
"Don't say anything about it," I said. "Let it be a surprise."
The first person I saw, as I entered the lounge of that hotel, was Berry.
"Do you mind not asking me why I'm here?" he said languidly. "I've just finished telling Jonah, and repetition always wearied me."
"Your movements have never interested me," said I. "All the same, I thought you were in the grip of Torment."
"I was and shall be. For the nonce——" He turned to a tall dark girl who was leaning against the chimney-piece, watching us curiously. "Let me introduce my brother-in-law. Carefully kept from me before marriage and by me ever since. Both the ablative case, I believe, but what a difference? So rich is the English tongue."