“Suppose we tell him that it was not Dolina who was helping us, but the daughter of Professor Stourton?”
“Do you really think he would ever forgive us for deceiving him? I think if we do that, he would never trust us again and we can forget the Racecourse right away.”
“If we do go ahead with it,” replied Henry, “he will doubtless see Rosetta eventually, even if it’s by chance.”
“By that time he will have forgotten about Dolina and what she looks like,” Gordon said optimistically. “If you ask me the whole thing is finished, absolutely finished, and we are back where we started, wondering how either of us can find a penny to bless ourselves with!”
He threw himself down into an armchair and Henry walked to the window.
Neither of them said anything further.
It was as if the night was c
