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Five minutes later Jane murmured softly:
"I don't know London very well, Julius, but is it such a very long way from the
Savoy to the Ritz?"
"It depends how you go," explained Julius unblushingly. "We're going by way of
Regent's Park!"
"Oh, Julius--what will the chauffeur think?"
"At the wages I pay him, he knows better than to do any independent thinking.
Why, Jane, the only reason I had the supper at the Savoy was so that I could
drive you home. I didn't see how I was ever going to get hold of you alone. You
and Tuppence have been sticking together like Siamese twins. I guess another
day of it would have driven me and Beresford stark staring mad!"
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Oh. Is he----?"
Of course he is. Head over ears."
I thought so," said Jane thoughtfully.
Why?"
From all the things Tuppence didn't say!"
There you have me beat," said Mr. Hersheimmer. But Jane only laughed.
In the meantime, the Young Adventurers were sitting bolt upright, very stiff and
ill at ease, in a taxi which, with a singular lack of originality, was also returning
to the Ritz via Regent's Park.
A terrible constraint seemed to have settled down between them. Without quite
knowing what had happened, everything seemed changed. They were tongue-tied-
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paralysed. All the old camaraderie was gone.
Tuppence could think of nothing to say.
Tommy was equally afflicted.
They sat very straight and forbore to look at each other.
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