The Secretary shrugged his shoulders.
"I'm afraid that would have been of little use."
"Be very careful," she warned him. "There are others besides Mr. Riddle whom you have to look out for."
Could it be possible, he asked himself, that she suspected her husband? Aloud, he said:
"Whom do you mean?"
She shrugged her shoulders. "It's not for me to belie my own sex," she retorted, "but——"
"You mean there is a woman in the case?"
She nodded.
The Secretary drew himself up very stiffly.
"It's an impossibility that we will not discuss," he said. "Your prejudices mislead you."