"The only thing I'm really frightened of is a hansom cab," she affirmed.
"Try and imagine that there are half a dozen round the next corner, will you?"
The smile deepened.
"Is your heart all right?" she demanded.
"It was when we started."
"But I know this road backwards."
"You needn't tell me that," said I. "We should have been killed long ago if you didn't. Seriously, I don't want to abuse your hospitality, but we're going to have kidneys for breakfast to-morrow, and I should be sorry to miss them."
"Are you fond of kidneys?"
"Passionately. I used to go out and gather them as a child. In the morning and the meadows. Or were we talking of haddock?"
Miss Childe hesitated before replying.