"I think you are very wise. I shall not mention her name to any one."
"But the nurses?"
"It is a rule of all nursing homes that a patient's name is never to be mentioned to an outsider. But if you wish to take extra precautions, you might give her another name while she is here and they need never know that it is not her own."
"Thank you. That is just what I should wish."
"What do you think Mrs. Crichton had better be called?"
Cyril thought a moment.
"Mrs. Peter Thompkins, and I will become Mr. Thompkins. Please address all communications to me under that name; otherwise the truth is sure to leak out."
"But how will you arrange to get your mail?"
"Peter Thompkins is my valet, so that is quite simple."
"Very well. Good-bye, Mr. Thompkins. I trust I shall soon have a better report to give you of Mrs. Thompkins."