He was trying to coax her back into a good humour and, because she enjoyed compliments, she gave him a smile before she said,
“I thought once of giving a party with every woman veiled except for me. Then I thought Buck would find it an irresistible temptation to lift their veils.”
“He has always been curious,” Harry said, “but in this case with excellent results. I don’t mind telling you all that it was Buck’s brilliant plan which has saved the Grand Duke and the others from the death the Bolsheviks had planned for them.”
“That sounds just like you, Buck,” George Radstock said. “I only wish that you had let me in on the secret. It sounds to me exactly like a story by Phillips Oppenheim.”
“That is what it has been!” Harry laughed, “and when we reach Cairo there will be a happy ending.”
