“Bill,” she said, “what’s all this about Seven Dials?”

Bill at once looked horribly embarrassed. He blinked and avoided her glance.

“I don’t know what you mean,” he said.

“Nonsense,” said Bundle. “I was told you know all about it.”

“About what?”

This was rather a poser. Bundle shifted her ground.

“I don’t see what you want to be so secretive for,” she complained.

“Nothing to be secretive about. Nobody goes there much now. It was only a craze.”

This sounded puzzling.

“One gets so out of things when one is away,” said Bundle in a sad voice.