I could imagine myself compelling her to give up the brocade bag, or
offering her some great bribe of money, thousands of pounds, if
necessary. Lisa is a strange little creature. She will do a good deal
for money.
CHAPTER XVI
DIANA UNDERTAKES A STRANGE ERRAND
If I had not been tingling with anger against Lisa, who had seemed to
enjoy saying needlessly cruel things to me, perhaps I would have been
utterly discouraged when she pricked the bubble of my hope. She had made
me realise that the plan I had was useless, perhaps worse than useless;
but in my desperate mood I caught at another. I would try to see Ivor,
and find out some other way of helping him. At all events he should know
that I was for him, not against him, in this time of trouble.
Perhaps this new idea was a mad one, I told myself. Perhaps I should not
be allowed to see him, even in the presence of others. But while there
was a "perhaps" I wouldn't give up. Without waiting for a cooler or more
cowardly mood to set in, I almost ran out of my room, and downstairs,
for I hadn't taken off my hat and coat since coming in.
I had no knowledge of French law, or police etiquette, or anything of
that sort.
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