"All right. I'll try and get an invitation for you to call with me."
About eight o'clock Maurice reached Crescent Place, and, scanning the numbers, found No. 12.
"He can't live in such a house," thought he. "It's ridiculous."
Still, he rang the bell, and, when the servant appeared, he asked, rather hesitatingly:
"Does Gilbert Grey live here?"
"Yes, sir," said the servant. "Will you go up to his room?"
"I don't know where his room is. Will you ask him to come down?"
"There is somebody to see you, Mr. Grey," said the servant, after mounting the stairs.
"He's come," said our hero, in a low voice, to Mordaunt. "I'll go down and bring him up."
Tom descended the stairs and welcomed Maurice.