Just what I was thinking," agreed Timothy. "So what's the tie-up?"
"Why should there be a tie-up?"
"Because, my sweet, feather-headed nit-wit though she may be, and indeed is, the Lady Nest doesn't make a bosom-friend of a brassy-haired widow on the up-and-up without having some strong inducement so to do."
"And they say women are spiteful!" exclaimed Beulah scornfully. "Do you also imagine there's a tie-up between her and Dan Seaton-Carew? She's a friend of his as well."
"Good God!" said Timothy. "I wonder if there's any insanity in the Ellerbecks?"
"Seaton-Carew is considered to be rather an attractive type."
"What does he attract? Pond-life?"
"Apparently, Lady Nest Poulton - if you call her a form of pond-life."
"No, but an unsteady type. Sort of woman who used to go to Limehouse for a thrill in the wicked twenties. That may be it, of course - though I should rather describe your Charles Street set-up as a menagerie."
"Really, Timothy!" she expostulated. "Lots of perfectly respectable people come to the house!"