"When he saw I was in earnest, he said that if I would turn up after the dance he would talk things over with me then."
"I warn you once more--look after that tongue of yours."
"I should advise you, Dodwell," struck in Clifford, "to begin by looking after your own. You keep on talking about Draycott's cowardice, while all the time you seem to be in mortal terror of what he is going to say."
Noel Draycott continued as if he had not been interrupted.
"When the others went upstairs I stayed behind."
"But where were you?"
The question, eagerly asked, came from Violet Forster.
"At first I was in the conservatory."
"But weren't the lights out?"
"They had been; I turned some of them on again. Dodwell came to me. We started quarrelling right away."