"Because I should not have classified you as being of the adventurous type," she declared.
Lutchester looked injured.
"After all," he protested, "that is not my fault. That is due to your singular lack of perception. However, I am able to return the compliment. I, for my part, should have thought that you were more interested in the fashions than in paying exceedingly rash visits to degenerate orientals and negroes."
"Perhaps some day," she remarked, "we may understand one another better."
He met her gaze with a certain seriousness.
"I hope that we may," he said.
For some reason they were both silent for a moment. Her tone had changed a little when she spoke again.
"You are sure," she asked, "that you do not mind my leaving the rest of this affair in your hands? There are reasons, which I cannot tell you of just now, which make me anxious not to appear in it at all."
"I accept the charge as a privilege," he assented. "We are within a few yards of my rooms now. I promise you that I will look after Captain Graham and advise him as to the proper course for him to pursue."
The car came to a standstill.