“Your friend Mr Raymond, being a Whig,” I urged, “might be able to do something.”
“I will see,” said he. “Do you know that Miss Keith is to be in London this evening?”
“Annas? No! I have never heard a word about it.”
“I was told so,” said Ephraim, looking hard at an engraving which he had taken up.
I wondered very much who told him.
“She might possibly go to the Princess Caroline. People say she is the best of the family. Bad is the best, I am afraid.” (Note 2.)
“How did Mr Raymond come to know my Lady Inverness?”
“Oh, you discovered who she was, did you?”
“She told me herself.”
“Ah!—I cannot say; I am not sure that he knew anything of her before Tuesday night. She was our superior officer, and gave orders which we obeyed—that was all.”