‘I do so refuse, sir, and now you will leave.’
‘We can still question Mister Pritchard-James,’ responded Flanagan, equally frustrated, ‘He may not have such high placed connections.’
‘Mister Pritchard-James will follow my instructions.’
‘Even though we could charge him with obstruction?’ Collingwood asked, but even as he spoke he knew the threat was futile. Portman’s Bank was simply too well connected and he remembered Flanagan’s comments about the influence wielded by the Catholic Church and the inability to take any action to curtail the abuses at the Mary Magdalene Home for Waifs and Orphans. The wealthy and influential truly were above the power of the law and he could sense that Sir Montague’s confidence and sense of invincibility had fully returned. The shock of being discovered i
