“May I see, Dick?” asked Miss Van Tuyn.

“No, you mayn’t.”

“Are you satisfied?”

“He’s coming out more as I want him this time.”

“Do you think you have found his secret?”

“Or yours, eh? What is happening in you, my girl?”

Before she could answer a telephone bell rang below.

“Damn!” said Garstin, going towards the staircase.

Before he went down he turned round and said:

“You’re travelling fast.”