rendezvous?"

"The woman was first. Stop a bit! We are getting to it now." He produced
from his pocket the written memorandum of Arnold's proceedings at Craig
Fernie, which he had taken down from Arnold's own lips. "I've got a bit
of note here," he went on. "Perhaps you'd like to have a look at it?"

Sir Patrick took the note--read it rapidly through to himself--then
re-read it, sentence by sentence, to Geoffrey; using it as a text to
speak from, in making further inquiries.

"'He asked for her by the name of his wife, at the door,'" read
Sir Patrick. "Meaning, I presume, the door of the inn? Had the lady
previously given herself out as a married woman to the people of the
inn?"

"Yes."

"How long had she been at the inn before the gentleman joined her?"

"Only an hour or so."

"Did she give a name?"

"I can't be quite sure--I should say not."

"Did the gentleman give a name?"

"No. I'm certain _he_ didn't."