“Then of course you realize the necessity for the utmost secrecy?”
“I do.”
The General smiled at her and brought forward a copy of a recent issue of the London Times.
“Did you know that for the past three days England has actually stopped criticizing me to talk about you?”
“About me?” she asked.
“Yes, read,” he said smiling, and she took the paper from him, skimming the headings of a news item he pointed out to her:
MISS MATHER STILL MISSING.
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE STILL UNACCOUNTED FOR.
LADY HEATHCOTE TELLS STRANGE STORY.
JOHN RIZZIO, THE FAMOUS COLLECTOR, A GERMAN SPY.