"How long have you been here?" he asked.
"Not ten minutes, perhaps five minutes, I don't know. I have no knowledge of time. I came straight back to see you."
He stood by the table, gnawing his finger, his head bowed in concentrated thought.
"There, of all places!" he muttered; "there, of all places!"
"Oh, Julius, I did my best," she said tearfully.
He looked down at her with a little sneer.
"Of course you did your best. You're a woman and you haven't brains."
"I thought——"
"You thought!" he sneered. "Who told you you could think? You fool! Don't you know it was a bluff, that he could no more arrest me than I could arrest him? Don't you realize—did he know you were in the habit of coming here?"
She nodded.