CHAPTER 31Frank Abbott watched the tail-light of the car dwindle to a spark and go out. He went back to the morning-room and said,
“Well, I’ve got a précis to make for the Chief, only I shall have to find an English word for it, or he’ll go through the roof. He’s had to put up with Ferrand being French, but he won’t be taking any of it from me. By the way, what is the English for précis?”
Miss Silver obliged with the word “summary,” and was thanked.
“All right then, I’m off to the study. You can tell Monica about Cis.”
Miss Silver smiled and said, “I think she will be pleased.”
He stopped on his way to the door.
“She would have been—I don’t know about it now. It’s—a bit tricky, isn’t it? Well, it’s no good worrying. I couldn’t have stopped her.”
He went out.
Miss Silver sat there k
