"When is he coming out?"
"They were expecting him this evening, I believe. Hullo! what's the matter?"
"Oh, it's suddenly struck me," cried Awdrey. "Perhaps he was Tony's man."
"Tony's man!—what d'you mean?"
Awdrey poured forth the story of her sister's adventure. "She said he was an awful-looking man, and goodness knows where he'd have landed her if the other man hadn't turned up and scared him away. I'm sure he must have been Furlonger, it isn't likely there'd be two scoundrels like that about."
Sir Gambier turned red.
"I won't have you girls mixed up in such things."
"She didn't want to be mixed up in it," interrupted Awdrey, "it wasn't her fault. But it's lucky the other man turned up. You don't know who he was, I suppose, Tony?"
"He said his name was Smith."