CHAPTER SEVENRomana awoke and felt as if she had been asleep for a very long time.
She remembered how exhausted she had felt when, after driving at very great speed, the Marquis had reached London in what she was sure was another record.
She had realised his anxiety to get back as quickly as possible to Sarne House was not entirely on her account but also because he was aware that it would be unwise to stay in the vicinity of Baldock whereby he might in some way be connected when Lord Kirkhampton was found dead.
There was every chance, Romana thought, that the bodies of the three men in the wood would not be discovered for some time perhaps even for several days.
But their horses would wander away and sooner or later it would be brought to the notice of the Police that there were three
