“And does he know it?” asked Dorothy, rather shortly.
“Tony?” laughed Joan. “Of course not. He never thinks about anything like that.”
CHAPTER XI. IN THE OUDE WEG.
“Le sage entend à demi mot.”
The porter of the hotel on the Toornoifeld was enjoying his early cigarette in the doorway, when he was impelled by a natural politeness to stand aside for one of the visitors in the hotel.
“Ah!” he said. “You promenade yourself thus early?”
“Yes,” answered Cornish, cheerily, “I promenade myself thus early.”
“You have had your coffee?” asked the porter. “It is not good to go near the canals when one is empty.”