"'But you don't understand. It's the key of the safe. I forgot that I was going to be married, and I brought it away.'
"I do not think that I was ever so much annoyed in my life. After all the pains I had taken to conceal the fact that we were honeymooning, and then for him to blurt it out like that! The other passengers simply roared.
"'This is a nice way of beginning one's honeymoon. I shall have to return to town at once.'
"Of course they laughed again. I was really too annoyed to speak. I sat and tried to look as though I liked it. When he had finished laughing the man who sat next to him stooped and picked up something from the floor of the carriage.
"'Anybody lost a pocket-book?' he asked.
"Of course it was Conrad's.
"'I--I expect I dropped it,' he explained. Then he turned to me. 'I am afraid we shall have to return to town at once.'
"'Don't be silly. We shall do nothing of the kind. I suppose there is a telegraph office at Harwich.'
"Before he had time to answer the train began to slow. I took the management of affairs into my own hands.
"'If you will go and send your telegram I will go on board. But pray don't be long.'