Coincidentally with Margot’s having entered Cabin 10, Buran had reached Brandgwyn at eight o’clock.
He was shown by Jarvis into the library, where Henry and Melissa were doing their best to tranquilize a mutual dose of plain mental t*****e. Although obviously trying to be so, Buran himself was anything but calm. He had come, he said, to see Miss Gilland and had been told by Jarvis that she was not at home.
“Where is she, Mr. Tyler?”
“She went for an after-dinner walk,” Henry said. “She takes one every night.”
It should be noted that Buran, as yet, had no reason to disbelieve this, that he showed no dereliction either of judgment or duty by not taking immediate steps to retrieve Margot from what he would have recognized as a mission of salient danger.
“A walk around the grounds?”
“Yes
