speaking until they were within sight of Russell Square.

"I like this part of London," said Hilliard at length, pointing
before him. "I often walk about the squares late at night. It's
quiet, and the trees make the air taste fresh."

"I did the same, sometimes, when I lived in Gower Place."

"Doesn't it strike you that we are rather like each other in some
things?"

"Oh, yes!" Eve replied frankly. "I have noticed that."

"You have? Even in the lives we have led there's a sort of
resemblance, isn't there?"

"Yes, I see now that there is."

In Russell Square they turned from the pavement, and walked along
the edge of the enclosure.

"I wish Patty had been with us," said Eve all at once. "She would
have enjoyed it so thoroughly."

"To be sure she would. Well, we can dine again, and have Patty with
us. But, after all, dining in London can't be quite what it is in
Paris. I wish you hadn't gone back to work again. Do you know what I
should have proposed?"

She glanced inquiringly at him.