‘You read the old Masters?’
‘The obsolete Thackeray? Yes, I know him pretty well.’
‘What are you publishing just now?’
‘This to an author? Don’t you know?’
‘I blush,’ said Logan.
‘Unseen,’ said Miss Martin, scrutinising him closely.
‘Well, you do not read the serials to which I contribute,’ she went on. ‘I have two or three things running. There is The Judge’s Secret.’
‘What was that?’
‘He did it himself.’
‘Did what?’