'Well, have you any objection?'
'Have you?' she asked, looking at him narrowly.
'No, I'm only too glad!'
'Did you ask her to do this?'
'Don't be idiotic. How could I ask her? I've neither seen nor communicated with her.'
'Then how do you account for it, Cecil?'
'I don't account for it. Why should I? It isn't the first time Uncle
Ted's gone yachting. Though he hasn't done it for some years. He was
always saying he wanted to go to Crete, Samos, and the Ionian Islands.
He used to talk a good deal about wanting to see the Leucadian Rock.'
'What's that?' She spoke suspiciously.
'A place that some woman threw herself into the sea from.'
'Lately, do you mean?'