ADAM CHAMBERS WAS IN the hall with his coat on when they got back to the house.
‘Oh. There you are,’ he said. ‘I thought you’d forgotten about me. I was just going back to work. I’ve got a lot to do there.’
‘I hadn’t forgotten about you, sir, of that you can be sure.’
Adam met his eyes for a few moments, then his gaze dropped, and he turned away. He removed his coat and hung it in the hall cupboard. Then he turned round and said with a false brightness, ‘I’m all yours.’
‘If you’ll come through to the study, sir?’ Rafferty led the way, with Llewellyn taking up the rear. Rafferty assumed it would make Adam feel he was under guard. Perhaps it would unnerve him?
‘Now, sir,’ he said, once they were settled in the study with the door shut. ‘Your mother will have told you the news about Dahl
