THIRTY-SIX‘But of course, my dear, you must see him in the drawing-room. Bessie shall light the fire before breakfast.’
‘It is very good of you, Cecilia.’
It really was, because Cecilia Voycey was dying of curiosity, and finding it very hard to bear in mind that you didn’t—you simply didn’t—ask questions about other people’s private affairs. Moral maxims are notoriously hard to live up to. The effort brought quite a deep flush to her face. But when the Chief Constable’s car drew up she merely repeated for the third time that she wouldn’t dream of intruding, and fell back upon the dining-room, where she recalled that Maud had always been provokingly discreet even at school.
In the drawing-room Miss Silver recounted her interview with Catherine Welby and the confidences of Allan Grover. M
