‘Please, Miss Chilperic. That is the kind of suggestion that ought not to be made here. It might convey a warning.’
‘This,’ said Miss Hillyard, ‘is an intolerable position.’ She looked angrily at Harriet, as though she were responsible for the position; which, in a sense, she was.
‘It seems to me,’ said the Treasurer, ‘that, now that we have asked Miss Vane to come and give us her advice, it is impossible for us to take it, or even to hear what it is. The situation is rather Gilbertian.’
‘We shall have to be frank up to a point,’ said the Warden. ‘Do you advise the private inquiry agent, Miss Vane?’
‘Not the ordinary sort,’ said Harriet; ‘you wouldn’t like them at all. But I do know of an organisation where you could get the right type of person and the greatest possible discretion.’
