Guelvada. "You were right. Who knows, you also might have been devoured by a shark." He smiled pleasantly at her. "The idea almost makes me wish that I myself were a shark. But I think you were right. So you made a plan?"
She said: "I made a plan. I went back to England. I met Mrs. Steyning. I told her that I thought it would be a good thing for Viola to go back to England to her mother. I said I'd do my best to persuade her to do that. In other words, I was providing myself with a ready-made excuse. Then I went to Chennault Investigations. I had known John Vallon for some time. He's a good type. I evolved a story about Viola Steyning's behaviour. Vallon believed it, and I thought at first that Isles did. Now I think Isles doesn't believe it."
"I see," said Guelvada. "Most unfortunate. S
