"
"I do not see how he can," Lessingham objected, helping himself to
another piece of toast. "I have committed no crime here. I have
played golf with all the respectable old gentlemen in the place, and
I have given the committee some excellent advice as to the two new
holes. I have played bridge down at the club--we will call it
bridge!--and I have kept my temper like an angel. I have dined at
Mess and told them at least a dozen new stories. I have kept my
blinds drawn at night, and I have not a wireless secreted up the
chimney. I really cannot see what they could do to me."
Philippa tried bluntness.
"You have served in the German army, and you are living in a
protected area under a false name," she declared.
"Well, of course, there is some truth in what you say," he admitted,
"but even if they have tumbled to that and can prove it, I should
do no good by running away. To be perfectly serious," he added,
setting his cup down, "there is only one thing at the present
moment which would take me out of Dreymarsh, and that is if you
believe that my presence here would further compromise you and Miss
Fairclough."
Philippa was beginning to find her courage. "We're in it already,
up to the neck," she observed. "I really don't see that anything
matters so far as we are concerned."
"In that case," he decided, "I shall have the honour of presenting
myself at the usual time.
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