CHAPTER XXVMark had reached the head of the stairs, when Elliot Wray caught him up.
‘Here—wait a minute.’
‘What is it?’
‘Where have you put this woman?’
‘In the study. I’ve told Lane she’s to have the bedroom next to yours.’
Elliot said abruptly,
‘I want to see her.’
‘All right, come along. Do you want me to come too?’
Elliot considered.
‘I don’t know.... No, I’ll see her alone. How much does she know?’
‘Lydia saw her first—I don’t know what she said. I told her what happened last night, and told her the names of the people who were there and the way they were related—things like that.’
Elliot stood for a moment as if he were in two minds whether to say something or not. In the end he laughed grimly and said what he hadn’t thought about at all.
‘Well, you seem to have inherited
