CHAPTER 28It was the next day that Mr. Pinkerton had to undergo the ordeal of tea in Lady Atwater’s sitting room in the Old Angel, supported, it is true, by Jeffrey Atwater and Mrs. Bruce, and Mr. Darcy Atwater, as well as Inspector Bull of Scotland Yard.
He balanced a cup and plate and dripping muffin in inadequate hands, trying vainly to look as stolid as the Inspector.
“I was sitting next to Ogle at the inquest,” Bull was saying. “I should have seen it then. But I thought it was just his own situation that had him shaking. I should have seen it was Fleetwood’s testimony. Then when I heard Fleetwood talking to Mrs. Atwater, I should have got it from that, I expect—each deceiving the other. But when I got Kathleen’s story from her, I knew what it was all about.”
Lady Atwater shook her
