Kew said, “You needn’t worry. Nothing’s happened.”
“No, nothing’s happened,” Thusby agreed. “Nothing we know about. Maybe I’ve been worried for nothing. Like as not he’ll turn up with the admiral tonight. It’s like Mrs. Travis says, so many things happening, you get to seeing shadows.” He took his cap, struggled up from the chair.
Griselda let out her breath and then she caught it tightly again. He hadn’t forgotten her.
“Now, Mrs. Satterlee, what’s this about Lieutenant Travis calling on you?”
“Not on me,” she rejected. “He came to see Con. He’d had a message telling him, he said. But Con wasn’t there.”
“He leave any word with you?”
“Only that he’d be in town today if I could tell Con.” She looked stonily at him. “But I don’t know where Con is or how to reach him.” Deliberately she a
