Chapter 39Miss Silver knew then what she had been afraid of. She rose to her feet and put her knitting down upon the table.
Jeremy had come up behind Jane. Mildred Taverner was straying towards them across the lounge. There was a horrid similarity to the scene before the door of Florence Duke’s room that very morning. Mildred said in a trembling whisper, ‘Things always happen in threes—first Luke, and then Florence, and now Eily. Oh, why did I come to this horrible house!’
Miss Silver said, ‘Hush!’ And then, to Jane. ‘Was she not with you?’
‘We went out just for a little—really only up and down on the cliff. Eily said she was going to help Cousin Annie. When we came in she wasn’t there. She isn’t anywhere—we’ve been all over the house.’
‘You do not think that she has gone to meet John
