“Well, she won’t come back again. If she ever does Mrs. Bailey I hereby refuse all responsibility. On your head be it if you take her in. I can’t keep her.”
“Well, as I say, I’m free to tell you. They used to go upstairs into the drawn-room, mornings, after breakfast. I could hear that woman’s voice going on and on. I was up and down the stairs. What’s more she used to stop dead the minute I came in.”
“Well I am sorry you’ve had all this.”
“I’m not blaming you, young lady.”
“What about all the others?”
“Rodkin and Helsing and Gunner’s out all day.”
“Yes but the others? The Manns and the Irish journalist.”
“She’d be clever to get anything out of any of them.”
“I wonder she didn’t try Mrs. Barrow. She’s kind I’m sure and gullible.”
“She’s very kind no doubt in her way. Anyway she’s not one of those who live on a widow woman and pay nothing.”