“Ah, yes,” he laughed. “But I am careful to avoid them. The district in which I live is far removed from them. Besides, I never by any chance go out by day. I’m essentially a nocturnal roamer.”
“And when shall we meet again?”
“By appointment, in the usual way.”
“At the usual place?” she asked.
“There can be no better, I think. It does not take you from home, and I am quite unknown down here.”
“If any of the villagers ever discovered us they might talk, and declare that I met a secret lover,” she laughed.
“If you are ever recognised, which I don’t anticipate is probable, we can at once change our place of meeting. At present there is no necessity for changing it.”
“Then, in the meantime, I will exercise my woman’s diplomacy to effect peace between Ethelwynn and the doctor,” she said. “It is the only way by which we can obtain security.”
“For the life of me I can’t discern the reason of his coolness towards her,” remarked my “dead” patient.
“He suspects her.”