"Really! But he must have been on the right train. He was going to the Conference at Geneva."
"Oh!" she replied, "I met him at Boulogne."
There was a pause, and when he spoke again Admaston's voice grew colder and colder with every sentence.
"Strange," he said, nodding his head with an appearance of thoughtfulness. "He wrote to me from Amiens, where he has been staying for the past week, that he was joining the train there; and Amiens is the first stop on the Swiss express, isn't it?"
Lady Attwill almost whispered her assent.
"And the Paris express doesn't stop at Amiens?"
It suddenly occurred to Lord Ellerdine that he was being left out of the conversation.
"No," he said brightly.
Admaston turned round to him.
"Funny that, being already at Amiens, where the Swiss express does stop, he should have gone to Boulogne to catch it!"