"But how do you know the two ends will meet?" she asked.
"Oh, engineers manage that sort of thing easily," Ninian answered. "Think of the Simplon Tunnel!..."
"Yes!" she said, to indicate that she was thinking of it.
"Well, that met, didn't it?"
"Did it?" she replied. "Oh, but of course it must have met. I've been through it!..."
"There was hardly an inch of divergence between the two ends," he went on....
"Hell's flames!" Henry said to himself.
5
"I must see you," he said to her when the party had broken up and she was going home. "I must see you alone!"
"I do hope you're not going to be a nuisance, Paddy!" she replied.