"Just that," he said. "Exactly that. Utterly, preposterously, altogether, selfish. That is the Upas tree."
"Oh, Ronnie," she cried, "if you knew—"
But Ronnie had seen a bowler hat behind the hedge. He called its wearer forward.
"Mrs. West tells me you are my valet," he said. "Kindly show me to my room."
CHAPTER XVI
"HE MUST REMEMBER"
Dick arrived very early the next morning, having to be off again by the twelve o'clock train, in order to reach that evening the place where he was due to spend Christmas.
A telegram from Helen had prepared him for a change in Ronnie, but hardly for the complete restoration of mental balance which he saw in his friend, as they hailed one another at the railway station.