“None, perhaps.”
“Then why do you hesitate to agree with me?”
“Because there is a woman in the case.”
“Another woman?”
“Yes; Mensmore’s sister, or half-sister, to be exact. She also lives in Raleigh Mansions.”
“Indeed. So all kinds of things have been going on without my knowledge. Yet you promised faithfully to keep me informed of every incident that transpired.”
“I am sorry, Dyke; but you were so upset—”
“Upset, man. Don’t you realize that this affair is all I have to think about in the world?”
The baronet was so disturbed that Claude at once made up his mind to tell him as little as possible in the future. These constant possibilities of rupture between them must be avoided at all hazard.