"Are we going to tell him about to-morrow?"
She breathed a sigh of relief at the answer.
"Not unless it becomes inevitable."
"Isn't there another way out, Mr. Danvers?" cried the distracted Maudie.
Geoff came to the rescue.
"Why not take Miss Meridith out by the back entrance, Pallister? You know—out into Langthorne Place."
"He mustn't come with me," declared the girl emphatically. "I mustn't have any of you with me. Somebody would be certain to see us. People one knows always are about when one doesn't want them to be."
"But you can go this way by yourself if you like," said Geoff; and getting the necessary key, he hastened down the little passage between the plaster-room and the model's dressing-room, and unlocked and unbolted the door at the end. Then returning he explained—
"Go down those stairs, and you'll find yourself in a corridor. Turn to the left and go straight ahead; take the second turning on the left again, and on the right you'll see another flight of stairs. That is the Langthorne Place entrance to this block of flats. When you get into the street, turn to the right, and then the first to the right again brings you——"
Maudie interposed plaintively.