Gamadge said: “She’s above small gossip, and so is her mother, and Tilly hasn’t an ounce of malice in her. They simply don’t intend Redfield to be involved. He’s the kind of employer who deserves loyalty.”
“He’d be wild,” said Mosson. “Mrs. Drummond! Who’d have thought it?” He groaned faintly. “What a murder case brings out!”
“Mrs. Drummond isn’t much of a mixer,” said Griggs, “but she isn’t unpopular. Drummond’s liked. We’ll have to go easy on this.”
“I can’t get over the subtlety of that Debenham girl’s attack,” said Mosson.
Ames, the officer who was acting as stenographer, looked up from his notes. He said: “I’ve seen Mr. Drummond and Miss Malcolm once or twice walking on the back roads.”
“That stuff may not be left on the record at all,” Griggs warned him. “Look out with it.” He r
