"Are you trying to keep him?"
She had turned her back on me again and was once more looking out of the window. "Of course I'm trying to keep him—so far as I may in somebody else's house."
"Oh.... Why 'of course?'"
"Of course it's of course. Do you think I'm going to take my eyes off him for a single moment? You heard what he said before breakfast."
"About walking to London as the quickest way of getting back to that book of his?"
She did not answer. Derry had moved, and her eyes had instantly moved with him.
"Why is he putting out by himself? Why aren't you with him?" I asked.
"Oh—as long as I know where he is——"
"Didn't he ask you to join him?"
"No."