"Yes, but I didn't know why. I've been trying to find out."
"How?"
"By having the said footsteps dogged on my own account."
"You've had Simone shadowed?"
"Certainly. But that doesn't necessarily imply suspicion. I'd be a poor sort of chap at my job if I didn't have every servant in the house shadowed."
"Great Scott! And without a word to me or my cousin!"
"I can't bother you two with every detail. Besides, she or you might have objected, and that would have made things awkward all around."
"H'm! I see. Well, where does Simone go?"
"She goes, quite naturally, to a French café where she can drink her native coffee and chat with compatriots in her native tongue."
"Nothing much in that, then, it would seem."