"No."
"Will she die?"
"No."
There was silence. Then Lord Archibald went on, rendered almost voiceless by contending emotions, "I was there in time; you should have waited."
"As I tell you, my dear Archie, it was a question of a quarter of an hour."
"When I got there the house was in commotion. They had found her lying in the hall, as you had left her. She was regaining consciousness as I arrived. When she saw me she made me stoop down and she whispered to me. She told me that it was you who had done it, and that you did it just as she was starting to save you."
"She has, perhaps, her own notions of salvation."
"I think she meant it. She said she was coming to warn you against a man named Haines."
"Haines? Indeed! That is the second time I have been warned against a man named Haines. By the way, I have just come from Horseferry Road. Pendarvon has given the show away."
"Pendarvon?"