"But Lady Wyke says the same thing."
Lemby dropped his arms and his mouth shut like a steel trap. "Tell me what that dashed woman said."
Claudia repeated Lady Wyke's last words verbatim. "And she said that, although the truth was known to her, it need not be known to others if----"
"If what; if what? Don't stop," rapped out the buccaneer, sharply.
"If I refused to marry Edwin."
"Oh!" Lemby's black eyes grew larger and rounder. "Why did she say that? She doesn't know Craver."
"Yes, she does. She saw him at the factory and at Hendon."
"What was she doing at Hendon?"
"Flying," said Claudia, curtly.
"You don't say so. I never thought he'd have the pluck to go up in an aeroplane, my girl. I wish he'd break his dashed neck."