“In that event, I should feel compelled to take his place again.”
“But the compulsion, as you put it, tends rather to take you to London.”
“I have changed my mind, Miss Vanrenen,” he said simply.
She tittered. There was just a spice of coquetry in her manner as she stooped nearer.
“You believe that Simmonds would not have found me in that wretched lane to-night,” she whispered.
“I am quite sure of it.”
“But the whole affair was a mere stupid error.”
“I am only too glad that I was enabled to put it right,” he said with due gravity.
“Cynthia,” came a shrill voice, “do make haste, I am positively starving.”