"
"You were right not to mention it to him," rejoined Winifred, "for he is in such a
state of distress at the mysterious disappearance of Mrs. "I'll see. For heaven’s sake, give him some Madeira or something,
Gerald! Anything to calm him down. So Ann Veronica also was arrested. You have spoken her name, I think, Marthe. Hogarth, and Mr. ” Lucy replied. Leastways, she’d be your greataunt, wouldn’t she?’
Astounded, Melusine was just about to demand further information, when a
commotion outside the room interrupted her. "Arrest!" vociferated Wood. ‘Am I a fool? Can I blow off a
head with a pistol which is not loaded?’
‘She has a point,’ conceded Alderley, relaxing a little as amusement burgeoned
again
‘Ten to one she is a French spy,’ burst from Roding. Ah! I
shall never forget the figure Jack cut on that occasion. The clever hostess having let fall that
several distinguished guests from France would be present, the world had
flocked to her doors to catch, like the gossip-hungry vultures they were, a
glimpse of them.
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