Mr Way said hardly a word to me, but spoke to Mrs Stiles about the running of the house. He asked only after the family I was supposed to have just left; and when I told him, the Dunravens, of
Whelk Street, Mayfair, he nodded and looked clever, saying he thought he knew their man. Which goes to show you what a humbug he was.
He went off at seven. Mrs Stiles would not leave the table before he got up. When she did she said,
''You will be glad to hear, Miss Smith, that Miss Maud sle