"Ms Elliss?"
"Double "L", double "S", yes, that"s me. First name: Hannah. What do you want? You seem to have charmed the parents if you"ve reached the inner sanctum. My father was positively gushing when he phoned ahead."
She pointed to an ancient field telephone on a desk by the window. "He was a signals officer. That"s a Type F MK II. The b****y things are all over the main house and I"ve got three hooked up around here. Quite ingenious and relatively secure in the immediate locale."
Bannerman looked around the room. "You have a lovely home." He noted the absence of a television or any other form of electronic entertainment device.
"Has something happened connected to my case files?" she asked.
"I"m sorry?"
"Something historical? I"m not in the loop, as they say. I"m very much old
