"Thanks," Everard said again. He stood for a few moments as if debating something further, but in the end he freed himself and turned away. "She will be all right, with you," he said. "You're—safe anyhow."
"Quite safe," said Bernard steadily.
PART V
CHAPTER I
GREATER THAN DEATH
"If you ask me," said Bertie Oakes, propping himself up in an elegant attitude against a pillar of the Club verandah, "it's my belief that there's going to be—a bust-up."
"Nobody did ask you," observed Tommy rudely.