"I'll come along and see you safe," he announced in a matter-of-fact tone.
"Oh, please no," she cried, "I'd much sooner——" She broke off distressed.
Without a word he handed her into the taxi.
"Where am I to tell him?" he enquired.
"Douglas Mansions, Chiswick, please," gasped Dorothy, and she sank back in the taxi with a feeling that she had behaved very ridiculously.
CHAPTER V
JOHN DENE LEAVES WHITEHALL
I
"Come," shouted John Dene irritably.