“I am inclined to agree with you,” he assented. “I saw him very hazily, but a more criminal type of countenance I never beheld.”
“So that we are quits,” she ventured.
“With a little debt on my side still to be paid.”
“Well, there is no telling what demands I may make upon our acquaintance.”
“Acquaintance?” he protested.
“Would you like to call it friendship?”
“A very short time ago;” he said deliberately, “even friendship would not have satisfied me.”
“And now?”
“I dislike mysteries.”
“Poor me!” she sighed. “However, you can rid yourself of the shadow of one as soon as you like after luncheon. It would be quite safe now, I think, for me to take back that packet.”