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86  Then why didn't you say that also?  Because I—I didn't think you would like your child's governess to be engaged to a person of enemy origin. You can understand that too, sir, can't you?  H'm! [''His face is growing stern. He lays down telegrams and takes up copy of register''.] So Otto Schiller was to meet you at Charing Cross?  Yes, and he did, sir.

 Your train arrived at 4, but it must have been 5.30 before you reached this house. Where had you been in the meantime?  We took a taxi and went up to Soho Square, sir.

 What happened there?  Oh, nothing—nothing particular. We had tea.  And then?  Then Otto called another taxi and I came here.