Take Dick into the gun room
afterwards. You'll have it all to yourselves and there is a fire
there."
Philippa entered the library in a state of agitation for which she
was glad to have some reasonable excuse. She held out both her
hands to Lessingham.
"Dick is back--just arrived!" she exclaimed. "I can't tell you
how happy we are, and how grateful!"
Lessingham raised her fingers to his lips.
"I am glad," he said simply. "Do you mean that he is in the house
here, now?"
"He is in the dining room with Helen."
Lessingham for a moment was thoughtful.
"Don't you think," he suggested, "that it would be better to keep
us apart?"
"I was wondering," she confessed.
"Have you told him about my bringing the letters?"
She shook her head.
"We nearly did. Then I stopped--I wasn't sure."
"You were wise," he said.
"Are you wise?" she asked him quickly.
"In coming back here?"
She nodded.
"Captain Griffiths knows everything," she reminded him. "He is
simply furious because your arrest was interfered with. I really
believe that he is dangerous."
Lessingham was unmoved.
"I had to come back," he said simply.
"Why did you go away so suddenly?"
"Well, I had to do that, too," he replied, "only the governing
causes were very different. We will speak, if you do not mind,
only of the cause which has brought me back.
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