"If I tried to do it they would lock me up. I once interfered in a street row."
Zora did not hear the dire results of the interference. Sypher claimed her attention until the train was on the point of starting.
"Your address in England? You haven't given it."
"The Nook, Nunsmere, Surrey, will always find me."
"Nunsmere?" He paused, pencil in hand, and looked up at her as she stood framed in the railway carriage window. "I nearly bought a house there last year. I was looking out for one with a lawn reaching down to a main railway track. This one had it."
"Penton Court?"
"Yes. That was the name."
"It's still unsold," laughed Zora idly.
"I'll buy it at once," said he.
"En voiture," cried the guard.