"Miss Merrislate tells me that she didn't trouble about the account as she supposed it was your affair."
"My affair!" exclaimed Lilian impulsively. "It's no more my affair than anybody else's." She surmised in the situation some ingenious malevolence of the flat-breasted mischief-maker.
"But you did the work?"
"Yes. It came in while I was on duty that night, and I did it at once. There was no one else to do it."
"Who brought it in?"
"Lord Mackworth."
"Did you know him?"
"Certainly not. I didn't know him from Adam."
"Never mind Adam, Miss Share," observed Miss Grig genially. "Has Lord Mackworth been in since?"
"If he has I've not seen him," Lilian answered defiantly.