'
'Of course I did! By the way, where's Albert?'
'He's had an accident to his foot, and couldn't come to-day. You're less
pale than you were, sir. Take this other piece.'
Then Simon returned, empty-handed, and Lily's eye indicated to him her
real opinion of the value of a male in a crisis. She asked no questions
concerning the events which had ended in Hugo's collapse. She merely
dealt with the collapse, and in the intervals of dealing with it she
explained to Simon how she had waited and waited in the dome, and then
descended and tried in vain to enter the Safe Deposit, and been insulted
by the messenger-boy, and had finally drifted to the restaurant, where
she had caught sight of Hugo and himself, and guessed immediately that
something in the highest degree unusual had occurred.
'Come,' said Hugo at last, in curt command, 'I am better.'
He had recovered. He was Hugo again. And Simon was once more nothing but
his body servant, and Lily nothing but an ex-waitress who had married
rather well. He thanked Lily, and told her to go and look after her
husband as well as she had looked after him.
In the dome Simon ventured to show him the _Evening Herald_. And, having
read it, Hugo nodded his head and pressed his lips together.
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