Gwilym glowered at Eleusia, and turned and fixed Madame Fleurese with a suspicious eye. ‘I’m glad you’ve been so well informed Madame, though I hope you’ll humour me and tell me exactly what my associate here has informed you of?’
Madame‘No need to worry, Gwilym,’ Eleusia said breezily. ‘I’ve given nothing away, but we should retire somewhere a bit more secluded and hammer out the details of our scheme.’
‘Aye, we should … the three of us, that is,’ Gwilym rumbled. ‘We need to sort out the relationship of the existing parts before we can think of bringing others into this.’ He looked pointedly at Madame Fleurese, who instinctively picked up on his intonation.
‘Yes, I’m sure the three of you have a lot to discuss,’ Madame Fleurese beamed, apparently unconcerned with the seriousness with w
