Chapter 13Miss Silver looked about her at the room which Captain Taverner was so kindly relinquishing.
‘Very comfortable,’ she said,—‘and most good of you. Mrs. Duke next door, and then Miss Mildred Taverner, you say? And Lady Marian and her husband opposite?’
Jeremy said, ‘Not quite. It’s Jane who is just over the way from you, and the Thorpe-Enningtons beyond her. The bathroom’s on Jane’s other side.’
‘So very convenient. You really are too kind. These old houses are sometimes so confusing. There are some more bedrooms, are there not, across the landing?’
Jeremy wondered why elderly ladies took so much interest in other people’s affairs. He said, ‘Yes. Mr. Taverner’s over there, and Geoffrey—and I suppose the Castells, and that girl Eily.’
Miss Silver coughed.
‘And Mr. Miller?’
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