CHAPTER FIVEIt was nearly a week later when Novella said,
“There is one good thing about it – Lord Grimstone has forgotten about me.”
Vale, who was sitting opposite her in the window, smiled.
“Do you really think that is possible?”
“Of course it’s possible,” she said. “He has never been near me and I would swear that there is no longer anyone lurking in the garden at night.”
“You are right about that,” Vale said. “But surely you realise that Grimstone has just been marking time to see what happens?”
Novella looked at him in surprise, not understanding.
After a moment he explained,
“You can reason it out for yourself that after I escaped from him, thanks to you, he must have expected me to report in London what he was doing and that he would then be arrested.”
“Yes, of course, I re
