If you wish me to help you, then you must take no action without first referring it to me. And if any person asks you to do any particular thing, I want you to learn all the details of any proposed plan and then tell me, before you give your answer. You can invent plausible excuses for any delay.
The next day proved how correct had been the reasoning that had prompted the sending of this note, for in the afternoon he had a message that Mary wished to see him at once. He hurried to her apartment, quickened with suspense.
“Mr. Loveman has found that I am staying here,” she began.
“I knew that. He was bound to find you sooner or later. Has he asked for anything?”
“He has invited me out for the evening.”
“You are to go with him alone?”
“So he said.”
“You learned definitely where he was going to take you?”
“Yes. To dinner at the Ritz—to a play at the Empire Theater—to supper at Delmonico’s—then dancing at that new café, Le Minuit. Shall I accept?”
Clifford thought rapidly. “Certainly.”