"I bear a message."
"The Effendi is not at home——"
"Ah—then Yeva may receive it."
"Yeva! Who are you?"
He smiled. "For the present that need not matter."
Zubeydeh blocked the door more formidably with her body.
"No one enters this house in the Effendi's absence."
"I do not desire to enter the house. I merely wish to talk with Yeva, here——"
"That is not possible." The woman moved back and made a motion to close the door, but Renwick took a pace forward and blocked her effort with his foot.
"Wait," he said.