"Some other things," he repeated.
"What were they?"
"He said he had come out from England because he had suspected something was wrong. He told me that he met you by chance in the temple of Edfou, that you seemed terrified at seeing him, that it was not you who asked him to come to the Loulia to see me, but that, on the contrary, he asked to come and you refused to let him. He said you even sent him a letter telling him not to come. He gave me that letter. Here it is. I have not read it."
He put his hand into his coat and drew out the letter, and with it the gilded box which Baroudi had given to her in the orange garden.
"There is the letter."
He laid it on the table.
"I found this in your room when I went for the cloak," he said, "full of Eastern things for the face."
His eyes were a question.
"I bought it in Cairo yesterday."
He laid it down.