He crushed the half-sheet of notepaper in his fingers and then dropped it into his pocket.
"There is no answer," he told the servant.
CHAPTER XXXII
Grantham, who had been unusually silent throughout the service of dinner, slipped away from the room a few minutes before the other men. He found Letitia arranging a bridge table, and drew her a little on one side.
"Letitia," he said, "I am annoyed."
"My dear Charles," she replied, "was anything ever more obvious!"
"You perhaps do not realise," he continued, "that you are the cause."
She shrugged her shoulders.
"Well?"