Anthony Trent looked at the tall colonel and understood.
"Never," he said, "but I shall be delighted to come."
Maitland remained after the others left. It was necessary that the premier should endorse his conduct with his own chief. British destroyers are not designed as passenger boats.
"Of course you are going to make your headquarters with us?" Lord Rosecarrel said and pointed to his waiting limousine.
"I think not," Trent returned. He had not forgotten that when he planned to go to Castle Radna he gave his word that he would seek no reward. To go back to Grosvenor Place would seem as though he had forgotten this.
"But I insist," the earl said.
"You are asking me to put myself in torment," he returned.
"Fiddlesticks!" the other cried, "How youth exaggerates."