In the same way, Jimmy Thesiger himself had various ideas and plans connected with the forthcoming party at George Lomax's which he had no intention of revealing to—say, Bundle.
And Bundle herself had a fully-fledged plan which she proposed to put into immediate execution and which she had said nothing whatever about.
On leaving Jimmy Thesiger's rooms, she drove to Scotland Yard, where she asked to see Superintendent Battle.
Superintendent Battle was rather a big man. He worked almost entirely on cases of a delicate political nature. On such a case he had come to Chimneys four years ago, and Bundle was frankly trading on his remembering this fact.
After a short delay, she was taken along several corridors and into the Superintendent's private room. Battle was a stolid-looking man with a wooden face. He looked supremely unintelligent and more like a commissionaire than a detective.
He was standing by the window when she entered, gazing in an expressionless manner at some sparrows.
"Good-afternoon, Lady Eileen," he said. "Sit down, won't you?"
"Thank you," said Bundle. "I was afraid you mightn't remember me."
"Always remember people," said Battle. He added: "Got to in my job."
"Oh!" said Bundle, rather damped.