"Away for the day?"
"No, sir. Mr. Stirling went to London yesterday—quite unexpectedly,— and he said he would be away for a week or more."
"Can you give me his town address?"
"No, sir, I can't."
"Somebody must know where he is."
"Yes, sir,"—solemnly. "Miss Stirling has the address."
"Will you be so good as to ask her for it?"
"Miss Stirling has gone away this morning, for the week-end."
"Where has she gone?"
The stately butler disapproved of all this questioning. Or—was it that he had been warned?