"Ah!" said Groom, sharply, "hanging round the house, eh? I must speak to Jane. Who is she?"
"The housemaid. Bernard has been making love to her."
"I don't believe that is true," said Lucy.
"Young gentlemen do take strange fancies sometimes," said Groom, "and some housemaids are pretty."
Lucy's lip curled. "Jane is not pretty," said she, decidedly, "and Bernard is far too fastidious a man to lower himself in that way."
"Well, the long and the short of it is, that he has been hanging round the house," put in Beryl, biting his fingers impatiently. "Probably he came here this evening, and saw Sir Simon in answer to the signal of the Red Window."
"The Red Window!" echoed Lucy.
"Yes. You told me about the signal this evening."
"But I did not place a lamp in any window, and there is no Red Window here. Had I done that to attract Bernard, I should have told you."
"I don't think you would," said Beryl, with a significant expression; "but the fact remains, Mrs. Webber saw the Red Window."