"Have you been waiting here for me?"
"Yes. Patty told me you weren't back."
"Why did you come?"
"Why do I ever come to meet you?"
"We can't talk here," said Eve, turning away. "Come into a quieter place."
They walked in silence to the foot of High Street, and there turned aside into the shadowed solitude of Mornington Crescent. Eve checked her steps and said abruptly—
"I want to ask you for something."
"What is it?"
"Now that it comes to saying it, I—I'm afraid. And yet if I had asked you that evening when we were at the restaurant——"
"What is it?" Hilliard repeated gruffly.