CHAPTER TENI
It was shortly after eight o’clock that Macdonald sent up his card to Mr. Ross Lane and he was taken straight up to the surgeon’s sitting-room. Ross Lane got up from the same comfortable chair in which he had been sitting on Macdonald’s first visit, but he was not alone in the room this time. A slim grey-haired woman stood with her back to the fire and studied Macdonald as he came into the room: her scrutiny was deliberate and impersonal and he was aware of an interesting face and a well-tailored figure as Ross Lane said:
“Good-evening, Chief Inspector. My wife has asked me to introduce you. Chief Inspector Macdonald—my wife.”
Macdonald bowed, and was able to get a closer impression of a very charming face, thin and not unlined, with clear-cut features, sensitive close-shut
