CHAPTER SIXMrs. Royce lived, so Inspector Bull discovered without much trouble, in a four-storey red brick Georgian house in the Windsor High-street. She would have preferred to live in one of her houses in the country—she had two, with adequate funds for maintenance and operation—but her principles would not permit it. Mrs. Royce believed that it was someone’s duty to protect the rear view of the royal household. When new tea-shops were opened in the High-street she wrote letters to the Times. Her letters seemed not to deter Messrs. Lyons, or whoever it might be, but they exhibited Mrs. Royce doing her duty as a British subject. She refused all offers for her own house with great violence. Once, Bull learned, she had called in a surprised constable to eject a still more surprised London a
