Edgar Wallace

“ She looked at him steadily.
"I may meet a friend very soon who will need a lot of convincing," she said. "Will you please go away?"
George was pleased to stay, as he explained.
"What a foolish young lady you are!" he began. "I'm merely offering you the common courtesies——"
A hand gripped his arm and slowly pulled him round—and this in broad daylight on Waterloo Station, under the eyes of at least two of his own tribe. Mr. Ravini's dark eyes snapped dangerously. ”

“ Margaret Belman was too intent with her own thoughts to be thinking about the debonair and youngish man who had so often sought an introduction by the conventional method of pretending they had met before. ”

“ Ravini, is a curious and complex thing. Well, well, I must be getting along. Give my regards to your criminal associates, and if you find yourself shadowed by a gentleman from Scotland Yard, bear him no resentment. He is doing his duty. And do not lose sight of my—um—warning about this lady."
"I have said nothing to this young lady that a gentleman shouldn't." ”