Wedgecroft comes back, grave and tense.
Wedgecroft. Horsham has gone. He thought perhaps you'd be staying with Miss Trebell for a bit.
Mrs. Farrant. Yes, I shall be.
Wedgecroft. I must go too ... it's nearly eleven.
Frances. To the other inquest?
This stirs her two listeners to something of a shudder.
Wedgecroft. Yes.
Mrs. Farrant. [In a low voice.] It will make no difference now ... I mean ... still nothing need come out? We needn't know why he ... why he did it.
Wedgecroft. When he talked to me last night, and I didn't know what he was talking of....
Frances. He was waiting this morning for Lord Horsham's note....