She said: "You've suggested to-night that Hipper, although he's weak and inclined to be frightened, might have been trying to blackmail me when he suggested he was helping me. What goes for Hipper could very easily go for you."
Vallon grinned. "Meaning that I'm doing a little blackmail on the side?"
She said softly: "Why not, Johnny? You've got me where you want me, haven't you?"
He laughed out loud.
The bar-tender brought the new Bacardis.
Vallon said: "So I've got you where I want you? In a way I suppose that's right. What you mean is I could tell you that unless you did this or that I could drop a line to the King's Proctor and inform him that on the night of so and so you spent several hours in a bedroom in this hotel with me. I could tell him that you were petitioning for a divor
