‘I can’t say that she does. I think it was Mr. Crewe who explained things like that.’
‘I am obliged to Mr. Crewe. But he may, after all, only repeat what he has heard. It’s a pity we don’t know Miss. Lord’s actual confidante.’
‘Of course you have not received assistance from her?’
Tarrant stared for a moment, then laughed unpleasantly.
‘I have no recollection of it.’
‘Another disagreeable question. Did you really go away and leave her to get on as best she could?’
He looked darkly at her.
‘And if I did?’
‘Wasn’t it rather unaccountable behaviour—in a gentleman?’
‘Possibly.’