The Secret Adversary

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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!"