ever since you came in here—that a watch is being kept on us, and that if we overstepped the mark in any way there would be a—well, a pounce? No? I do; and I don’t care how soon we are outside the gate.
“After all,” she said, when they were once more on their way to the house, “it may have been only the airlessness and the dull heat of that place that pressed on my brain. Still, I'll take back one thing I said. I’m not sure that I shan’t forgive you after all, if I find next spring that that maze has been grubbed up.”
“Whether or no that’s done, you shall have the plan, Lady Wardrop. I have made one, and no later than to-night I can trace you a copy.”
“Admirable: a pencil tracing will be all I want, with an indication of the scale. I can easily have it brought into line with the rest of my plates. Many, many thanks.”
“Very well, you shall have that to-morrow. I wish you could help me to a solution of my block-puzzle.”
“What, those stones in the summer-house?
